Vessel tree reconstruction in thoracic CT scans with application to nodule detection

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 486-499

  Agam, Gady ^a   Armato III, Samuel G ^b   Wu, Changhua ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy shape representation; Image processing; Lung nodule detection; Mathematical morphology; Medical imaging; Regulated morphological operations; Vessel enhancement filter; Vessel tree reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUZZY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FUZZY SHAPE REPRESENTATION; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; REGULATED MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL TREE RECONSTRUCTION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 17444363420     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.844167     Document Type: Article

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