Automated 3D segmentation of the lung airway tree using gain-based region growing approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 975-982

  Singh, Harbir ^a   Crawford, Michael ^b   Curtin, John ^a,b   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITALS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PULMONARY DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COST-BASED MARKING; INTRA-THORACIC AIRWAY TREE; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; PULMONARY STRUCTURE; 3D DATA ACQUISITION; 3D RECONSTRUCTION; ADAPTIVE REGION GROWING; INFORMATION GAIN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; TREE STRUCTURES;

MEDICAL IMAGING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 20344406792     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_118     Document Type: Conference Paper

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