Automatic localization and delineation of collimation fields in digital and film-based radiographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 II, Issue , 2002, Pages 1215-1223

  Lehmann, Thomas M ^a   Goudarzi, Sascha ^a   Linnenbrügger, Nick I ^a   Keysers, Daniel ^a   Wein, Berthold B ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background Removal; Collimation Detection; Content Based Image Retrieval; Hough Transform; Radiation Field Recognition; Shutter Removal; Software Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTIMIZATION; X RAYS;

COLLIMATION DETECTION;

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036029937     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467080     Document Type: Conference Paper

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