Algorithm of pulmonary emphysema extraction using thoracic 3-D CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6915, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Saita, Shinsuke ^a   Kubo, Mitsuru ^a   Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Nakano, Yasutaka ^b   Ohmatsu, Hironobu ^c   Tominaga, Keigo ^d   Eguchi, Kenji ^e   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d Tochigi Public Health Service Association   (Japan)

^e TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emphysema; LAA; Low dose; Thoracic 3 D CT images

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EMPHYSEMA; LOW DOSES; THORACIC 3-D CT IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 44349148350     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.769968     Document Type: Conference Paper

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