Automated image segmentation: Issues and applications

Medical Imaging Systems Technology: Volume 3: Methods in General Anatomy

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 195-244

  Pitiot, Alain ^a   Delingette, Hervé ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^c  

^a Mirada Solutions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

A priori knowledge; Medical imaging; Review; Robustness; Segmentation; Segmentation paradigm; Validation

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; REVIEWS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; DIVERSE RANGE; EXPLOSIVE GROWTH; FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; VALIDATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84967443952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812701060_0006     Document Type: Chapter

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