Automatic lung segmentation in CT images with accurate handling of the hilar region

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-27

  De Nunzio, Giorgio ^a   Tommasi, Eleonora ^b   Agrusti, Antonella ^a   Cataldo, Rosella ^a   De Mitri, Ivan ^a   Favetta, Marco ^a   Maglio, Silvio ^a   Massafra, Andrea ^a   Quarta, Maurizio ^a   Torsello, Massimo ^c   Zecca, Ilaria ^c   Bellotti, Roberto ^b   Tangaro, Sabina ^d   Calvini, Piero ^e   Camarlinghi, Niccolò ^f   Falaschi, Fabio ^f   Cerello, Piergiorgio ^g   Oliva, Piernicola ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c VITO FAZZI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^g SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D imaging; biomedical image analysis; CAD; grid; image segmentation; lung nodules; region growing

Indexed keywords

3D IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; CAD; GRID; LUNG NODULES; REGION GROWING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; D REGION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77957954026     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-009-9229-1     Document Type: Article

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