Segmentation of nodules on chest computed tomography for growth assessment

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 839-848

  Mullally, William ^a   Betke, Margrit ^a   Wang, Jingbin ^a   Ko, Jane P ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3D algorithms; Computed tomography; Computer aided diagnosis; Image segmentation; Lung cancer; Phantom study; Shape analysis; Volume effects

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PHANTOMS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

D-ALGORITHM; LUNG CANCER; PHANTOM STUDIES; SHAPE ANALYSIS; VOLUME EFFECT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG NODULE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 1942484737     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1656593     Document Type: Article

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