Robust segmentation of lung tissue in chest CT scanning

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2249-2252

  Farag, Amal ^a   Graham, James ^a   Farag, Aly ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung nodules; Segmentation; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BOUNDARY REGIONS; CHEST CT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EM ALGORITHMS; ENERGY OPTIMIZATION; EXECUTION TIME; GRAPH CUT; GRAPH-CUTS; LABELED DATA; LEVEL SET; LOW-DOSE CT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG REGIONS; LUNG TISSUE; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; ROBUST SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 78651082540     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5651233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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