Automated detection of Pulmonary Embolism (PE) in Computed Tomographic Pulmonary Angiographic (CTPA) images: Multiscale hierachical expectation-maximization segmentation of vessels and PEs

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Zhou, Chuan ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a   Chughtai, Aamer ^a   Patel, Smita ^a   Cascade, Philip N ^a   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Ge, Jun ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Expectation Maximization (EM) segmentation; Image segmentation; Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary vessel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC PULMONARY ANGIOGRAPHIC (CTPA); EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION (EM) SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM (PE); PULMONARY VESSELS; VESSEL BIFURCATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOLOGY;

ANGIOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248817460     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.713769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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