Expectation maximization approach to vessel enhancemet in thoracic CT scans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5747, Issue III, 2005, Pages 1703-1712

  Agam, Gady ^a   Wu, Changhua ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Medical imaging; Nodule detection; Probabilistic models; Vessel enhancement; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

NODULE DETECTION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBABILITY;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 23844550363     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.595453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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