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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2014 Apr 18;18(5):725–739. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2014.04.001

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Challenges of detection and segmentation of ovarian cancer metastases (red arrows). (a) Random distribution in the abdomen, (a, b) varying metastasis shapes, e.g., elongated in (b) and spherical in (a), (c) weak boundaries of low contrast between metastases and surrounding tissues (yellow arrow), and (d) imaging artifacts caused by metallic streaks (blue arrow).