Nasopharyngeal carcinoma segmentation using a region growing technique
- 14 June 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
- Vol. 7 (3), 413-422
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-011-0629-6
Abstract
This paper proposes a new image segmentation technique for identifying nasopharyngeal tumor regions in CT images. The technique is modified from the seeded region growing (SRG) approach that is simple but sensitive to image intensity of the initial seed.Keywords
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