Toward automated segmentation of the pathological lung in CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1025-1038

  Sluimer, Ingrid ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atlas based registration; Classification; Lung; Multislice CT; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCANNING; TISSUE;

ATLAS BASED REGISTRATION; CLASSIFICATION; LUNG; MULTISLICE CT; SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 23844550632     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2005.851757     Document Type: Article

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