Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 291-302 , June 2010

Musculoskeletal MRI segmentation using multi-resolution simplex meshes with medial representations

Received 22 July 2008 ,Revised 21 January 2010 ,Accepted 28 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.media.2010.01.006

Medical Image Analysis
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 291-302 , June 2010