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Automatic Segmentation of Liver Region through Blood Vessels on Multi-Phase CT
Quebec City, QC, Canada August 11-August 15
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Takeshi Saitoh, Toyohashi University of Technology
Yuta Tamura, Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohisa Kaneko, Toyohashi University of Technology
Recently four phases CT has been widely used for diagnosing liver diseases, especially cancer. This paper describes an automatic method for segmenting the liver region from third phase abdominal CT. First, blood vessels in the liver are extracted with a threshold. Then morphological dilation enables us to define an approximate liver region, which is found to be very useful for removing abutting organs. The final liver region is extracted with a threshold. Experiments were conducted for eight CT data. The extracted regions agree well with those detected manually.
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Takeshi Saitoh, Yuta Tamura, Toyohisa Kaneko, "Automatic Segmentation of Liver Region through Blood Vessels on Multi-Phase CT," icpr, vol. 1, pp.10735, 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'02) - Volume 1, 2002
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