Method for extracting the aorta from 3D CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Taeprasartsit, Pinyo ^a   Higgins, William E ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D imaging; Aorta segmentation; CT imaging; Medical image segmentation; Pulmonary imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AORTA SEGMENTATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY IMAGING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248952695     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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