Identification of lobar fissures in pathological lungs

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5347-5350

  Wei, Q ^a   Hu, Y ^a   MacGregor, J H ^b   Gelfand, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b FMC   (Canada)

^c FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CT images; Lobar fissures; Lungs; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MEAN DIFFERENCES; CT IMAGE; FISSURE SURFACE; HIGH NOISE; HUMAN LUNG; LOBAR FISSURES; LOW CONTRAST; LUNG ANATOMY; LUNGS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-TRIVIAL TASKS; SEGMENTATION; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHIC; VARIABLE SHAPE; WORST-CASE ERRORS;

ALGORITHMS; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATHOLOGY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650843967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626469     Document Type: Conference Paper

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