Recognition of lung lobes and its application to the bronchial structure analysis

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 288-291

  Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Nakada, Yuichi ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Takabatake, Hirotsugu ^b   Mori, Masaki ^c   Natori, Hiroshi ^d  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Sapporo Minami Sanjo Hospital   (Japan)

^c Sapporo Kosei General Hospital   (Japan)

^d SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BRONCHIAL STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; LUNG LOBES; LUNG PARENCHYMA;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 34147135556     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2006.972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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