A marker-based watershed method for X-ray image segmentation

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 894-903

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Jia, Fucang ^a   Luo, Suhuai ^b   Liu, Guiying ^a,c   Hu, Qingmao ^a  

^a University Town of Shenzhen   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Nanfang Medical University   (China)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Direct radiography; Watershed segmentation; X ray image

Indexed keywords

WATERSHED METHODS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; X-RAY IMAGE; X-RAY IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT RADIOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; GRADIENT COMPUTATION; HAND; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; LEG; MARKER EXTRACTION; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX; WATERSHED; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIRECT RADIOGRAPHY; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION; X-RAY IMAGE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HAND; HUMANS; LEG; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84894287467     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.12.025     Document Type: Article

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