A pattern recognition approach to enhancing structures in 3D CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Rikxoort, Eva ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Enhancement; Hessian matrix; Pulmonary fissures; Supervised

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL FILTERS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ENHANCEMENT; HESSIAN MATRIX; PULMONARY FISSURES; SUPERVISED;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745150768     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.651138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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