Segmentation of airway trees from multislice CT using fuzzy logic

Conference Record - Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1614-1617

  Liang, Tan Kok ^a   Tanaka, Toshiyuki ^a   Nakamura, Hidetoshi ^b   Shirahata, Toru ^a   Sugiura, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D SLICE; AIRWAY TREES; AIRWAY WALLS; CLINICAL APPLICATION; D LINES; FUZZY CONNECTIVITY; HUMAN AIRWAY; MULTISLICE CT; PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS; REGION GROWING; REGION OF INTEREST; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CRIME; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953844851     PISSN: 10586393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5470180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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