Shape-based segmentation and characterization of biomedical images

Kevin O. Lepard; Richard A. Robb

doi:10.1117/12.237996

16 April 1996 Shape-based segmentation and characterization of biomedical images

Kevin O. Lepard, Richard A. Robb

Proceedings Volume 2710, Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237996
Event: Medical Imaging 1996, 1996, Newport Beach, CA, United States

Abstract

Shape is a powerful descriptor in identifying and describing objects in images, but is largely unused as a tool for object segmentation and computer-aided image analysis. We extract shape descriptors of objects, 'cores,' in computer images derived from a variety of sources, and prove their utility in important biomedical applications, including segmentation of the hippocampus and cerebral ventricles from MR images, and discrimination between normal and abnormal nerve axons in photomicrographs.

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Kevin O. Lepard and Richard A. Robb "Shape-based segmentation and characterization of biomedical images", Proc. SPIE 2710, Medical Imaging 1996: Image Processing, (16 April 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.237996

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