Effective Automated Kidney Locating and Segmentation Method Based on Multi-phase MR Images
LI Hong1, PAN Xiao-guang2, SUN Hao-ran3, KANG Yan1
1. School of Sino-Dutch Biomedical & Information Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China; 2. School of Information Science & Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China; 3. Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin 300052, China.
LI Hong, PAN Xiao-guang, SUN Hao-ran, KANG Yan. Effective Automated Kidney Locating and Segmentation Method Based on Multi-phase MR Images[J]. Journal of Northeastern University:Natural Science, 2013, 34(1): 52-56.
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