A Deformable Surface Model Based on Boundary and Region Information for Pulmonary Nodule Segmentation from 3-D Thoracic CT Images

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E86-D, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1921-1930

  Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Ohmatsu, Hironobu ^b   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c National Cancer Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D pulmonary nodule image; Boundary information; Deformable surface model; Region information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEFORMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY DISEASES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NODULE IMAGES; PHYSICIANS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 1642329932     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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