Probabilistic modeling based vessel enhancement in thoracic CT scans

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2005

Volumn II, Issue , 2005, Pages 649-654

  Agam, Gady ^a   Wu, Changhua ^a  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PROBABILITY;

PROBABILISTIC MODELING; THORACIC CT SCANS; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT FILTERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 24644484887     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2005.280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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