Automatic 3D segmentation of lung airway tree: A novel adaptive region growing approach

3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, iCBBE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lai, Kai ^a   Zhao, Peng ^a   Huang, Yufeng ^a   Liu, Junwei ^a   Wang, Chang ^a   Feng, Huanqing ^a   Li, Chuanfu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive parameter; Airway tree segmentation; Region growing; Two step processing

Indexed keywords

3D SEGMENTATION; ADAPTIVE PARAMETERS; ADAPTIVE REGION GROWING; AIRWAY TREE SEGMENTATION; AIRWAY TREES; CONSTANT PARAMETERS; CT IMAGE; IMAGE NOISE; LUNG AIRWAYS; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; REGION GROWING; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM; ROUGH SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE SIMILARITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 72749125466     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5162427     Document Type: Conference Paper

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