Automatic lung segmentation for accurate quantitation of volumetric X-ray CT images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 490-498

  Hu, Shiying ^b   Hoffman, Eric A ^a,c   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The University of Iowa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Pulmonary imaging; Volumetric imaging; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LUNG SEGMENTATION; GRAY-LEVEL THRESHOLDING; MEDIASTINUM; PULMONARY ARTERIES; VOLUMETRIC X-RAY COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035354205     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.929615     Document Type: Article

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