Lung field segmentation from thin-slice CT scans in presence of severe pathology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1447-1455

  Sluimer, Ingrid C ^a   Niemeijer, Meindert ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elastic registration; High resolution CT; Lungs; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

ELASTIC REGISTRATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; LUNG FIELD SEGMENTATION; LUNGS; SEGMENTATION; THORAX;

PATHOLOGY;

EID: 5644295486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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