Estimation of anatomical locations using standard frame of reference in chest CT scans

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 5809-5812

  Lee, Jaesung ^a   Biancardi, Alberto M ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical location; Chest imaging; Computed tomography (CT); Frame of reference

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); LOCATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANATOMICAL LOCATIONS; ANATOMICAL POINT; BIFURCATION POINTS; CHEST IMAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FRAME OF REFERENCE; POINT OF INTEREST; PULMONARY NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951002138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5335184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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