Automatic lung nodule matching for the follow-up in temporal chest CT scans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hong, Helen ^a   Lee, Jeongjin ^a   Shin, Yeong Gil ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chest; CT; Distance transformation; Lung; Optimization; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SCANNING;

CHEST; DISTANCE TRANSFORMATION; LUNGS; REGISTRATION; SEGMENTATION;

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

EID: 33745123348     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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