Fuzzy pulmonary vessel segmentation in contrast enhanced CT data

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6914, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kaftan, Jens N ^a,b   Kiraly, Atilla P ^c   Bakai, Annemarie ^b   Das, Marco ^d   Novak, Carol L ^c   Aach, Til ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Fuzzy connectedness; Pulmonary vessel; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SETS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CHEST CT; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; PULMONARY VESSELS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 43449121876     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.768795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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