Segmentation and reconstruction of the lung volume in CT images

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 255-259

  Antonelli, Michela ^a   Lazzerini, Beatrice ^a   Marcelloni, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Medical image segmentation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS;

COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CT IMAGES; LUNG'S INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 33644532505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1066738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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