Automatic segmentation of the lungs using multiple active contours and outlier model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3122-3125

  Silveira, Margarida ^a   Marques, Jorge ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; GRADIENT METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ACM ENERGY MINIMIZATION; ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELS (ACM); AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; X RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047178026     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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