International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 980872, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/980872
Research Article

Shells and Spheres: An n-Dimensional Framework for Medial-Based Image Segmentation

Aaron Cois,1 John Galeotti,1 Robert Tamburo,1 Michael Sacks,2 and George Stetten1

1749 Benedum Hall, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
2306 CNBIO, 300 Technology Drive, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA

Received 6 October 2009; Revised 1 February 2010; Accepted 12 April 2010

Academic Editor: Guo W. Wei

Copyright © 2010 Aaron Cois et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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