Automatic segmentation of the lung fields in portable chest radiographs based on Bézier interpolation of salient control points

IST 2008 - IEEE Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 82-87

  Iakovidis, Dimitris K ^a   Papamichalis, George ^b  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

^b General Chest Hospital Sotiria   (Greece)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Infections; Lung; Portable chest radiography; Salient points, B zier curves

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONTROL THEORY; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; RADIOLOGY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES; CONTROL POINTS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; EDGE FEATURES; EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; GRAPH CUTS; INFECTIONS; LOW QUALITIES; LUNG; LUNG FIELDS; OVERLAPPING REGIONS; PATIENT CARES; PORTABLE CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; PULMONARY INFECTIONS; STATE OF THE ARTS;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 57849119671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IST.2008.4659946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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