Segmentation of intrathoracic airway trees: A fuzzy logic approach

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 489-497

  Park, Wonkyu ^a   Huffman, Eric A ^a   Sonka, Milan ^a  

^a The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway tree; Electron beam CT (EBCT); Fuzzy logic; Knowledge based image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOG; FUZZY LOGIC; HISTOLOGY; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; DOGS; FUZZY LOGIC; LUNG; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ELECTRON BEAM COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY (EBCT); INTRATHORACIC AIRWAY TREES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0032129159     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.730394     Document Type: Article

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