Computer aided evaluation of pleural effusion using chest ct images

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-244

  Yao, Jianhua ^a   Han, Wei ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Pleural effusion; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODEL; ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; AUTOMATED METHODS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CAD; CHEST CT; COMPUTER AIDED; DICE COEFFICIENT; MANUAL SEGMENTATION; MANUAL TRACING; PEARSON CORRELATION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL SPACE; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

MACROS;

EID: 70449403646     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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