Three-Dimensional Segmentation and Growth-Rate Estimation of Small Pulmonary Nodules in Helical CT Images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1259-1274

  Kostis, William J ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^b   Yankelevitz, David F ^a   Henschke, Claudia I ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Mathematical morphology; Moments; Pulmonary nodules; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; PULMONARY DISEASES;

HELICAL IMAGES;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER STAGING; CELL DIVISION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LUNG COIN LESION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CELL DIVISION; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0141954913     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2003.817785     Document Type: Article

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