Accurate lung segmentation for X-ray CT images

Proceedings - Third International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 275-279

  Gao, Qixin ^a   Wang, ShengJun ^a   Zhao, Dazhe ^a   Liu, Jiren ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

An isotropic diffusion; Lung segmentation; Region growth

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; X RAYS;

ISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; LUNG SEGMENTATION; POSTERIOR JUNCTIONS; REGION GROWTH; THRESHOLD VALUE; X-RAY CT IMAGES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 38049051397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2007.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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