Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 29-39 , January 2009

Segmentation of kidneys using a new active shape model generation technique based on non-rigid image registration

  • Martin Spiegel

      Affiliations

    • Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Erlangen, Germany
    • Department of Computer Science, Chair of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
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  • Dieter A. Hahn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, Chair of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 9131 8527874; fax: +49 9131 303811.
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  • Volker Daum

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, Chair of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
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  • Jakob Wasza

      Affiliations

    • Department of Computer Science, Chair of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
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  • Joachim Hornegger

      Affiliations

    • Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Erlangen, Germany
    • Department of Computer Science, Chair of Pattern Recognition, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Received 12 October 2007 ,Revised 16 July 2008 ,Accepted 3 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.10.002

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 29-39 , January 2009