A three-object model for the similarity searches of chest CT images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 617-630

  Yu, Sung Nien ^a   Chiang, Chih Tsung ^a,b   Hsieh, Chin Chiang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Newsoft Technology Corporation   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Content based; Medical images; Model; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CT IMAGES; TEXTURE FEATURES; THREE-OBJECT MODELS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LUNG LOBE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDIASTINUM; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; WATERSHED;

HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 28444478796     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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