A general method for the identification and repair of concavities in segmented medical images

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5320-5326

  Sensakovic, W F ^a   Starkey, A ^a   Armato III, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Concavity; Image Processing; Nodule; Omputer Aided detection (CAD); Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; CONCAVITY; CONVEX HULL; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; GENERAL METHOD; GENERALIZED METHOD; JUXTAPLEURAL NODULES; MEDICAL IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL CLOSING; NODULE; OMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION (CAD); SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION BOUNDARIES; SEGMENTED MEDICAL IMAGES;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; REPAIR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 67649184141     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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