Automated anatomical labeling of the bronchial branch and its application to the virtual bronchoscopy system

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-114

  Mori, Kensaku ^a,b   Hasegawa, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a,b   Toriwaki, Jun Ichiro ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; X RAYS;

AUTOMATED ANATOMICAL LABELING; BRONCHIAL BRANCH; BRONCHUS; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY; VIRTUAL ENDOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BRONCHI; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0033624998     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.836370     Document Type: Article

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