Automatic segmentation of lung areas based on SNAKES and extraction of abnormal areas

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 377-381

  Itai, Yoshinori ^b   Kim, Hyoungseop ^a,b   Ishikawa, Seiji ^a,b   Katsuragawa, Shigehiko ^a,c   Ishida, Takayuki ^a,d   Nakamura, Katsumi ^e   Yamamoto, Akiyoshi ^e  

^a IEEE

^b KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Kyoaikai Tobata Kyoritsu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; CT IMAGE SETS; LUNG SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33845891855     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2005.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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