CT urography: Segmentation of urinary bladder using CLASS with local contour refinement

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2767-2785

  Cha, Kenny ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Caoili, Elaine M ^a   Cohan, Richard H ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

bladder; computer aided diagnosis; CT urography; level set; segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; FADING (RADIO); IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BLADDER; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTERIZED SEGMENTATIONS; COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS; INTRAVENOUS CONTRAST; LEVEL SET; UROGRAPHY; WAVEFRONT PROPAGATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; BLADDER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; UROGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; UROGRAPHY;

EID: 84900491949     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/59/11/2767     Document Type: Article

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