Segmentation of the posterior ribs in chest radiographs using iterated contextual pixel classification

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 602-611

  Loog, Marco ^b,c   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chest radiograph; Iterated contextual pixel classification; Pixel classification; Rib segmentation; Statistical pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHEST RADIOGRAPH; ITERATED CONTEXTUAL PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIB; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RIBS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33646416744     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2006.872747     Document Type: Article

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