A volumetric pulmonary CT segmentation method with applications in emphysema assessment

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6143 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Silva, José Silvestre ^a,b   Silva, Augusto ^a,c   Santos, Beatriz Sousa ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Emphysema Assessment; Medical Image Analysis; Volumetric Pulmonary Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITOMETERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOLOGY;

3D LUNG SURFACES; EMPHYSEMA ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC PULMONARY SEGMENTATION;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 33745401842     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.652622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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