Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , September 2010

A segmentation framework for abdominal organs from CT scans

Received 12 September 2008 ,Revised 12 April 2010 ,Accepted 16 April 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.artmed.2010.04.010

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Volume 50, Issue 1 , Pages 3-11 , September 2010