System for upper airway segmentation and measurement with MR imaging and fuzzy connectedness

Academic Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 13-24

  Liu, Jianguo ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Odhnera, Dewey ^a   McDonough, Joseph M ^b   Arens, Raanan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchi, anatomy; Magnetic resonance (MR), image processing

Indexed keywords

ADENOID; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALATE DISEASE; PALATINE TONSIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOFT PALATE; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; STANDARDIZATION; TONGUE DISEASE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

EID: 0037214149     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(03)80783-3     Document Type: Article

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