Fuzzy entropy and morphology based fully automated segmentation of lungs from CT scan images

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4993-5002

  Jaffar, M Arfan ^a   Hussain, Ayyaz ^a   Mirza, Anwar M ^a   Chaudhry, Asmatullah ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^b PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Mathematical morphology; Medical image analysis; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; COMPUTER AIDED; CT-SCAN IMAGES; DATA SETS; DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; FUZZY C MEAN; FUZZY ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; LUNG SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; PAKISTAN; SEGMENTATION; THRESHOLDING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 73449149194     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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