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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