Automatic segmentation of pulmonary lobes robust against incomplete fissures

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1286-1296

  Van Rikxoort, Eva M ^a,b   Prokop, Mathias ^c,d   De Hoop, Bartjan ^c   Viergever, Max A ^a   Pluim, Josien P W ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Incomplete fissures; Lobes; Pulmonary; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATIONS; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BRONCHIAL TREE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; KEY ELEMENTS; OBSERVER STUDIES; SELECTION MECHANISM; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; TEST SETS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; LUNG; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953169233     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2010.2044799     Document Type: Article

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