Automatic Segmentation of Lung Parenchyma in the Presence of Diseases Based on Curvature of Ribs

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1173-1180

  Prasad, Mithun N ^a   Brown, Matthew S ^a   Ahmad, Shama ^a   Abtin, Fereidoun ^a   Allen, Jared ^a   da Costa, Irene ^a   Kim, Hyun J ^a   McNitt Gray, Michael F ^a   Goldin, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

curvature; High resolution computed tomography; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDUAL VOLUME; RIB; SCLERODERMA; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; RIBS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48649110404     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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