A region growing approach for pulmonary vessel tree segmentation using adaptive threshold

Proceedings of the International Symposium CompIMAGE 2006 - Computational Modelling of Objects Represented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 319-324

  Oliveira, D A B ^a   Mota, G L A ^a   Feitosa, R Q ^a,b   Nunes, R A ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES; CT IMAGES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; PULMONARY STRUCTURES; PULMONARY VESSEL TREES; REGION-GROWING; REGION-GROWING TECHNIQUES; THORACIC RADIOGRAPHIES; THRESHOLDING; VISUAL SEGMENTATIONS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 60749103386     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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