Automatic extraction of the pulmonary artery tree from multi-slice CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5746, Issue II, 2005, Pages 730-740

  Bülow, Thomas ^a   Wiemker, Rafael ^a   Blaffert, Thomas ^a   Lorenz, Cristian ^a   Renisch, Steffen ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

MSCT; Pulmonary Arteries; Pulmonary Vessel Tree; Tree Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING;

MULTI-SLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (MSCT); PULMONARY ARTERIES; PULMONARY VESSEL TREES; TREE SEGMENTATION;

NEUROLOGY;

EID: 23844474845     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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