An automated liver segmentation in liver iron concentration map using fuzzy c-means clustering combined with anatomical landmark data

Abstract Background To estimate median liver iron concentration (LIC) calculated from magnetic resonance imaging, excluded vessels of the liver parenchyma region were defined manually. Previous works proposed the automated method for excluding vessels from the liver region. However, only user-define...

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Main Authors: Kittichai Wantanajittikul, Pairash Saiviroonporn, Suwit Saekho, Rungroj Krittayaphong, Vip Viprakasit
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:BMC Medical Imaging
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12880-021-00669-2