A new segmentation method for lung HRCT images

Proceedings of the Digital Imaging Computing: Techniques and Applications, DICTA 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 357-364

  Garnavi, Rahil ^a   Baraani Dastjerdi, Ahmad ^a   Moghaddam, Hamid Abrishami ^b   Giti, Masoomeh ^c   Rad, Ali Adjdari ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

GLOBAL THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION; LUNG IMAGES; NOISE TOLERANCE; PIXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33846984237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DICTA.2005.1578150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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