ERS transform for the automated detection of bronchial abnormalities on CT of the lungs

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 942-952

  Chabat, François ^a   Hu, Xiao Peng ^a   Hansell, David M ^b   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronchi; Computer assisted tomography; Elliptical Hough transform; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOLOGY;

PULMONARY VESSELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRONCHUS DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRONCHIAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LUNG; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035437719     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.952731     Document Type: Article

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