An automated segmentation algorithm for CT volumes of livers with atypical shapes and large pathological lesions

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E97-D, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 951-963

  Umetsu, Shun ^a   Shimizu, Akinobu ^a   Watanabe, Hidefumi ^a   Kobatake, Hidefumi ^b   Nawano, Shigeru ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT volume; Lasso; Lesion; Liver segmentation; Probabilistic atlas

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

CT VOLUME; LASSO; LESION; LIVER SEGMENTATION; PROBABILISTIC ATLAS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84897384241     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.951     Document Type: Article

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