Regulated morphology approach to fuzzy shape analysis with application to blood vessel extraction in thoracic CT scans

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1262-1270

  Wu, Changhua ^a   Agam, Gady ^a   Roy, Arunabha S ^b   Armato III, Samuel G ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Fuzzy shape representation; Image processing; Lung nodule detection; Mathematical morphology; Medical imaging; Regulated morphological operation

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SHAPE REPRESENTATION; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; REGULATED MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATION; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; COMPUTER VISION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644273931     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.533175     Document Type: Conference Paper

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