Shape based region growing using derivatives of 3D medical images: Application to semi-automated detection of pulmonary nodules

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1085-1088

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a   Ye, Xujiong ^a   Costello, John ^a  

^a Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY DISEASES;

GEOMETRIC FEATURES; SHAPE BASED SEGMENTATION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0345097410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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