Automatic segmentation of the liver in CT images using the watershed algorithm based on morphological filtering.
Seong-Jae LimYong-Yeon JeongChil-Woo LeeYo-Sung HoPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2004)
Keyphrases
- ct images
- automatic segmentation
- morphological filters
- segmentation algorithm
- watershed segmentation
- manual segmentation
- computed tomography
- medical images
- ct scans
- liver segmentation
- medical imaging
- mathematical morphology
- ct data
- computer tomography
- median filter
- structuring elements
- image segmentation
- morphological operations
- morphological operators
- region of interest
- input image
- multiscale
- noise removal
- brain tissue
- region merging