Automatic segmentation of pulmonary structures in chest CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3773 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 654-662

  Yim, Yeny ^a   Hong, Helen ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS;

GRAY-LEVEL THRESHOLDING; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VESSELS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL REGIONS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33745341999     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11578079_68     Document Type: Conference Paper

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