Fast level-set based image segmentation using coherent propagation

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Chunliang ^a   Frimmel, Hans ^b   Smedby, Örjan ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

coherent propagation; image segmentation; level set; medical imaging; monotonic propagation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

3D IMAGE SEGMENTATION; COHERENT PROPAGATION; DISTANCE REGULARIZED LEVEL SETS; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; LEVEL SET; LEVEL SET FUNCTIONS; LEVEL-SET EVOLUTION; MULTI-RESOLUTION APPROACH;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COHERENT PROPAGATION ALGORITHM; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84902158994     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4881315     Document Type: Article

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