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Liver segmentation is an important task in the development of computer-aided multi-phase CT diagnosis system of liver. This paper presents a new approach for segmenting liver from multi-phase abdominal CT images using ICA mixture analysis. In particular, we use the variational Bayesian mixture of ICA method [1] to analyze three-dimensional four-phase abdominal CT images. The analysis results show that the CT images could be divided into a set of clinically and anatomically meaningful components. As to our concern, the organs that surround the liver and have similar intensities, such as stomach, kidney, are nearly completely separated from the liver, which makes the segmentation become much easier than on the original CT images.
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Hu, X., Shimizu, A., Kobatake, H., Nawano, S. (2004). Applying ICA Mixture Analysis for Segmenting Liver from Multi-phase Abdominal CT Images. In: Yang, GZ., Jiang, TZ. (eds) Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality. MIAR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28626-4_7
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