Marginal space learning for medical image analysis: Efficient detection and segmentation of anatomical structures

Marginal Space Learning for Medical Image Analysis: Efficient Detection and Segmentation of Anatomical Structures

Volumn 9781493906000, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-268

  Zheng, Yefeng ^a   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT DETECTION; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLINICAL APPLICATION; EFFICIENT DETECTION; EFFICIENT OBJECT DETECTIONS; IMAGE MEASUREMENTS; MARGINAL SPACE LEARNING;

MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 84929861256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-0600-0     Document Type: Book

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