Three-dimensional murine airway segmentation in micro-CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Shi, Lijun ^a   Thiesse, Jacqueline ^a,b   Mclennan, Geoffrey ^a,b   Hoffman, Eric A ^a,b   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a,c  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway segmentation; Micro CT; Mouse; Pulmonary

Indexed keywords

MURINE AIRWAY SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY IMAGE ANALYSIS; THORACIC IMAGING; VASCULATURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PULMONARY DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 35148858164     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.711213     Document Type: Conference Paper

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