Robust 3D segmentation of pulmonary nodules in multislice CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 881-889

  Okada, Kazunori ^a   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a   Krishnan, Arun ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURGERY; TUMORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS; NODULE ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; PULMONARY NODULES; PULMONARY TUMOURS; BASIN OF ATTRACTION; GAUSSIAN MODEL FITTING; GAUSSIAN SCALE SPACE; MULTI-SLICE CT IMAGE; NORMALIZED GRADIENT; SPATIAL INTENSITY; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20344389017     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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