Comparison of a segmentation algorithm to six expert imagiologists in detecting pulmonary contours on X-ray CT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5034, Issue , 2003, Pages 347-358

  Ferreira, Carlos ^a   Santos, Beatriz Sousa ^a   Silva, Jose Silvestre ^a,b   Silva, Auguste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Inter and Intra Observer Variability; Multivariate Data Analysis; Non Parametric Statistics; Pulmonary Contours; Quantitative Evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; X RAYS;

PULMONARY CONTOURS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0041357174     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.480072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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