Combining 2D wavelet edge highlighting and 3D thresholding for lung segmentation in thin-slice CT

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 960, 2007, Pages 996-1005

  Korfiatis, P ^a   Skiadopoulos, S ^a   Sakellaropoulos, P ^a   Kalogeropoulou, C ^a   Costaridou, Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38349000626     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/20861881     Document Type: Article

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