Lung segmentation in pulmonary CT images using wavelet transform

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Talakoub, Omid ^a   Alirezaie, Javad ^a,b   Babyn, Paul ^c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Edge detection; Pulmonary CT images; Segmentation; Wavelet transformation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LUNG BORDERS; LUNG EDGES; MEDICAL IMAGE INTERPRETATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 34547519143     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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