Anatomy-guided lung lobe segmentation in X-ray CT images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 202-214

  Ukil, Soumik ^a,b   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b TeraRecon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Fissures; Lobes; Lungs; Segmentation; Surface detection; Watershed; X ray

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LANDFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY; WATERSHEDS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); FISSURES; LOBES; LUNGS; SEGMENTATION; SURFACE DETECTION; WATERSHED; X-RAY;

X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 59449099817     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2008.929101     Document Type: Article

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