A framework for automatic segmentation of lung nodules from low dose chest CT scans

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 611-614

  El Baz, Ayman ^a   Farag, Aly ^a   Gimel'farb, Georgy ^b   Falk, Robert ^c   El Ghar, Mohamed A ^d   Eldiasty, Tarek ^d  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MARKOV PROCESSES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

CHEST IMAGES; LOW DOSE COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY (LDCT); PROBABILITY MODELS; VOXELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34147095900     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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