Automatic calculation of total lung capacity from automatically traced lung boundaries in postero-anterior and lateral digital chest radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 7 I, 1998, Pages 1118-1131

  Carrascal, Francisco M ^a,c   Carreira, José M ^a   Souto, Miguel ^a   Tahoces, Pablo G ^b   Gómez, Lorenzo ^b   Vidal, Juan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b University of Santiago   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CAD; Computer aided diagnosis; Digital chest images; TLC; Total lung capacity

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FUNCTION EVALUATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC CALCULATIONS; CHEST IMAGE; COMPUTER-BASED METHODS; PULMONARY FUNCTION; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITIES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

HELIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 0031866167     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598303     Document Type: Article

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