Automatic detection of air holes inside the esophagus in CT images

Informatik aktuell

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 397-401

  Fieselmann, Andreas ^a,b   Lautenschläger, Stefan ^b   Deinzer, Frank ^b   Poppe, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CLINICAL DATA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; POST PROCESSING; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; THRESHOLDING; VOLUME OF INTEREST;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78349243401     PISSN: 1431472X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78640-5_80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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