Morphological segmentation and partial volume analysis for volumetry of solid pulmonary lesions in thoracic CT scans

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-434

  Kuhnigk, Jan Martin ^a   Dicken, Volker ^a   Bornemann, Lars ^a   Bakai, Annemarie ^b   Wormanns, Dag ^c   Krass, Stefan ^a   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chest imaging; Computer aided analysis; Image segmentation; Volume measurement; X ray tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; SCANNING; VOLUME MEASUREMENT; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CHEST IMAGING; PULMONARY NODULES;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG COIN LESION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645697952     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.871547     Document Type: Article

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