Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50660#.VEh8aVfHRK0 Author(s) Walita Narkbuakaew 1 , Hiroshi Nagahashi 2 , Kota Aoki 2 , Yoshiki Kubota 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan . 2 Imaging Science and Engineering Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, Japan . 3 Gunma University Heavy-Ion Medical Center, Gunma, Japan . ABSTRACT This paper presents an efficient liver-segmentation system developed by combining three ideas under the operations of a level-set method and consequent processes. First, an effective initial process creates mask and seed regions. The mask r...
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