Segmentation of lung lobes in volumetric CT images for surgical planning of treating lung cancer

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4869-4872

  Wei, Q ^a,b   Hu, Y ^a,b   MacGregor, J H ^c   Gelfand, G ^c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lung lobar fissures; Segmentation; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FISSURE SWEEPING; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBAR FISSURES; SURGICAL PLANNING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; SURGERY; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EQUIPMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047137153     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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