Automatic segmentation and recognition of lungs and lesion from CT scans of thorax

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 72-82

  Kakar, Manish ^a   Olsen, Dag Rune ^a,b  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gabor filters; Genetic Algorithm; Segmentation; SVM; Texture analysis; Tracking

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TEXTURES;

GABOR FILTERS; SEGMENTATION; SVM; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG LESION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY LOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NORWAY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57449115730     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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