Fractal Analysis for the Assessment of Pulmonary Blood Flow on Chest Radiographs

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 80-86

  Kido, Shoji ^a   Sasaki, Shinji ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital chest radiography; Fractal analysis; Image processing; Mitral stenosis; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure; Receiver operating characteristic analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0142058940     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005382-200304000-00004     Document Type: Article

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