Algorithm of pulmonary emphysema extraction using thoracic 3-D CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Saita, Shinsuke ^a   Kubo, Mitsuru ^a   Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Nakano, Yasutaka ^b   Ohmatsu, Hironobu ^c   Tominaga, Keigo ^d   Eguchi, Kenji ^e   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d Tochigi Public Health Service Association   (Japan)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f National Cancer Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emphysematous; LAA; Low dose; Thoracic 3 D CT images

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOLOGY;

DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA EXTRACTION; QUANTITATIVE ALGORITHM; THORACIC 3-D CT IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248889545     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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