Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 423-430 , September 2009

A multiresolution binary level set method and its application to intracranial hematoma segmentation

  • Chun-Chih Liao

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    • Taipei Hospital, Department of Health, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Furen Xiao

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    • National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jau-Min Wong

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    • National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
    • ,
  • I-Jen Chiang

      Affiliations

    • Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
    • Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: National Taiwan University, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, 250 Wu-Xin Street, Xin-Yi District, Taipei City110, Taiwan.

Received 20 October 2008 ,Revised 26 March 2009 ,Accepted 3 April 2009.

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PII: S0895-6111(09)00040-8

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.04.001

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 423-430 , September 2009

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