Method for segmenting chest CT image data using an anatomical model: Preliminary results

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 828-839

  Brown, Matthew S ^a   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^a   Mankovich, Nicholas J ^a   Goldin, Jonathan G ^a   Hiller, John ^a   Wilson, Laurence S ^a   Aberle, Denise R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical model; Knowledge based; Segmentation; Thoracic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ANATOMICAL MODELS; FEATURE CONSTRAINTS; FRAME BASED SEMANTIC NETWORK; THORACIC DATASETS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031283426     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.650879     Document Type: Article

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