Quantification of airway morphometry: The effect of CT acquisition and reconstruction parameters

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Ken Leader, J ^a,c   Zheng, Bin ^a   Sciurba, Frank C ^a   Coxson, Harvey O ^b   Fuhrman, Carl R ^a   McMurray, Jessica M ^a   Park, Sang C ^a   Maitz, Glenn S ^a   Gur, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway; Airway morphometry; Airway remodeling; Airway segmentation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY MORPHOMETRY; AIRWAY REMODELING; AIRWAY SEGMENTATION; THORACIC DISEASES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148822834     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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