Automated segmentation and morphometric analysis of the human airway tree from multidetector CT images

Journal of Physiological Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 493-498

  Nakamura, Masanori ^a   Wada, Shigeo ^a   Miki, Takahito ^b   Shimada, Yasuhiro ^c   Suda, Yuji ^d   Tamura, Gen ^e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e Airway Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Airway; Automated segmentation; Computed tomography; Morphometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DATA BASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149293839     PISSN: 18806546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2170/physiolsci.RP007408     Document Type: Article

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