3D airway segmentation via hyperpolarized 3He gas MRI by using scale-based fuzzy connectedness

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 77-86

  Wang, Binquan ^a,b   Saha, Punam K ^b   Udupa, Jayaram K ^b   Ferrante, Margaret A ^c   Baumgardner, James ^a   Roberts, David A ^d   Rizi, Rahim R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy connectedness; Lung perfusion and ventilation; Magnetic resonance imaging; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GADOLINIUM; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HELIUM; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; VOLUME FRACTION;

FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; PULMONARY AIRWAYS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

HELIUM; HELIUM 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCURACY; AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GAS; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; STANDARDIZATION; TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

EID: 10744221152     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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