Lung Segmentation on Postero-anterior Digital Chest Radiographs Using Active Contours

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3138, Issue , 2004, Pages 538-546

  Iglesias, Isaac ^a   Tahoces, Pablo G ^b   Souto, Miguel ^c   De Alegría, Anxo Martmez ^c   Lado, María J ^d   Vidai, Juan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ACTIVE CONTOURS MODEL; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; LUNG SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY SEGMENTATION; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SEGMENTATION SCHEME;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35048873242     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-27868-9_58     Document Type: Article

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