Automatic lung lobe segmentation in X-ray CT images by 3D watershed transform using anatomic information from the segmented airway tree

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue I, 2005, Pages 556-567

  Ukil, Soumik ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^b   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a,c  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airways; Fissures; Image segmentation; Lobes; Vasculature; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; X RAYS;

ANATOMY; CT IMAGES; FISSURES; LOBES; VASCULATURE; WATERSHED TRANSFORMS; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 23844433991     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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