Comparison and evaluation of methods for liver segmentation from CT datasets

T Heimann, B Van Ginneken, MA Styner… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a comparison study between 10 automatic and six interactive methods
for liver segmentation from contrast-enhanced CT images. It is based on results from the …

Review of liver segmentation and computer assisted detection/diagnosis methods in computed tomography

M Moghbel, S Mashohor, R Mahmud… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2018 - Springer
Computed tomography (CT) imaging remains the most utilized modality for liver-related
cancer screening and treatment monitoring purposes. Liver, liver tumor and liver vasculature …

Weakly-supervised teacher-student network for liver tumor segmentation from non-enhanced images

D Zhang, B Chen, J Chong, S Li - Medical Image Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate liver tumor segmentation without contrast agents (non-enhanced images) avoids
the contrast-agent-associated time-consuming and high risk, which offers radiologists quick …

A hierarchical local region-based sparse shape composition for liver segmentation in CT scans

C Shi, Y Cheng, F Liu, Y Wang, J Bai, S Tamura - Pattern Recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
Motivated by the goals of improving segmentation of challenging liver cases containing low
contrast with neighboring organs and presence of pathologies as well as highly varied …

Automatic liver segmentation from abdominal CT volumes using graph cuts and border marching

M Liao, Y Zhao, X Liu, Y Zeng, B Zou, X Wang… - Computer methods and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Identifying liver regions from abdominal computed
tomography (CT) volumes is an important task for computer-aided liver disease diagnosis …

3D liver segmentation using multiple region appearances and graph cuts

J Peng, P Hu, F Lu, Z Peng, D Kong… - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Efficient and accurate 3D liver segmentations from contrast‐enhanced computed
tomography (CT) images play an important role in therapeutic strategies for hepatic …

Algorithms for improving the dependability of firewall and filter rule lists

S Hazelhurst, A Attar… - … on Dependable Systems …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network firewalls and routers use a rule database to decide which packets will be allowed
from one network on to another. By filtering packets, the firewalls and routers can improve …

Liver segmentation based on region growing and level set active contour model with new signed pressure force function

L Xu, Y Zhu, Y Zhang, H Yang - Optik, 2020 - Elsevier
Segmentation of the whole liver in computed tomography (CT) images is important in liver
disease diagnosis. Although the commonly used level set methods (LSMs) and active …

Segmentation of liver and spleen based on computational anatomy models

C Dong, Y Chen, AH Foruzan, L Lin, X Han… - Computers in biology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Accurate segmentation of abdominal organs is a key step in developing a computer-aided
diagnosis (CAD) system. Probabilistic atlas based on human anatomical structure, used as a …

Liver segmentation by intensity analysis and anatomical information in multi-slice CT images

AH Foruzan, R Aghaeizadeh Zoroofi, M Hori… - International journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Purpose Quantitative assessment and essentially segmentation of liver and its tumours are
of clinical importance in various procedures such as diagnosis, treatment planning, and …