Automatic liver segmentation on computed tomography using random walkers for treatment planning

• Main Authors: Moghbel, Mehrdad, Mashohor, Syamsiah, Mahmud, Rozi, Saripan, M. Iqbal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55179/1/Automatic%20liver%20segmentation%20on%20computed%20tomography%20using%20random%20walkers%20for%20treatment%20planning.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/55179/; http://www.excli.de/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Segmentation of the liver from Computed Tomography (CT) volumes plays an important role during the choice of treatment strategies for liver diseases. Despite lots of attention, liver segmentation remains a challenging task due to the lack of visible edges on most boundaries of the liver coupled w...