3D kidney segmentation from abdominal diffusion MRI using an appearance-guided deformable boundary

• Mohamed Shehata,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bioengineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

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• Ali Mahmoud,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Bioengineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

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• Ahmed Soliman,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bioengineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

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• Fahmi Khalifa,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Mohammed Ghazal,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Bioengineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• Mohamed Abou El-Ghar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology Department, Urology and Nephrology Center, University of Mansoura, Mansoura, Egypt

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• Moumen El-Melegy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Ayman El-Baz

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aselba01@louisville.edu

  Affiliation Bioengineering Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7264-1323

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