Multiatlas segmentation of thoracic and abdominal anatomy with level set-based local search

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 22-38

  Schreibmann, Eduard ^a   Marcus, David M ^a   Fox, Tim ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlas segmentation; Image registration; Level sets; Multi atlas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937965648     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15269914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v15i4.4468     Document Type: Article

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