Correction of segmented lung boundary for inclusion of pleural nodules and pulmonary vessels in chest CT images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 845-857

  Yim, Yeny ^a   Hong, Helen ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul Women University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Airways; Contour tracing; CT; Curvature calculation; Lung segmentation; Lung smoothing; Pleural nodule; Pulmonary vessels

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CHEST CT; CONTOUR TRACING; CURVATURE (SORI); CURVATURE CALCULATION; DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); SCAN-LINE SEARCH; SEGMENTATION RESULTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLEURA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48349111576     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.04.012     Document Type: Article

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