Image analysis for cystic fibrosis: Automatic lung airway wall and vessel measurement on CT images

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3545-3548

  Mumcuoglu, Erkan U ^a,b   Prescott, Jeffrey ^a   Baker, Brian N ^c   Clifford, Bronte ^c   Long, Frederick ^c   Castile, Robert ^c   Gurcan, Metin N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATED METHODS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTERIZED METHODS; DIFFERENT STAGES; GENETIC DISORDERS; PATIENT POPULATION; SIZE MEASUREMENTS; VESSEL MEASUREMENTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77950972789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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