Automatic segmentation of pulmonary nodules in CT images

2007 1st International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, ICBBE

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 790-793

  Sun, Shen Shen ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Hou, Xin Ran ^b   Kang, Yan ^b   Zhao, Hong ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Engineering Research Center for Digitization   (China)

Author keywords

K L divergence; Mean Shift; Multi scale; Nodule segmentation; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

MULTISCALE ANALYSES; NODULE SEGMENTATION; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; PULMONARY NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35348890234     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2007.206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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