Automatic rib segmentation and labeling in computed tomography scans using a general framework for detection, recognition and segmentation of objects in volumetric data

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Staal, Joes ^a   van Ginneken, Bram ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computer aided detection (CAD); Detection; Elongated structures; Pattern recognition; Ribs; Segmentation; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC RIB SEGMENTATION; RIDGE VOXELS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIB; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOCUMENTATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RIBS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846850484     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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