Spiral-CT-based assessment of tracheal stenoses using 3-D-skeletonization

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 263-273

  Sorantin, Erich ^a   Halmai, Csongor ^b   Erdöhelyi, Balázs ^b   Palágyi, Kálmán ^b   Nyúl, László G ^b   Ollé, Krisztián ^b   Geiger, Bernhard ^c   Lindbichler, Franz ^a   Friedrich, Gerhard ^a   Kiesler, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical computing; Biomedical measurements; Feature extraction; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CORRELATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PRECISION ENGINEERING; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; LARYNGO-TRACHEAL TRACT; MEDIAL AXIS; SKELETONIZATION; SPIRAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRACHEAL STENOSES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA STENOSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENDOSCOPY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TRACHEAL STENOSIS;

EID: 0036489382     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.996344     Document Type: Article

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