Estimation of lung's air volume and its variations throughout respiratory CT image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 152-158

  Naini, Ali Sadeghi ^a,b,c   Lee, Ting Yim ^a,c   Patel, Rajni V ^a,c   Samani, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c LAWSON HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air volume; brachytherapy; cancer; Computed Tomography (CT) image; lung; segmentation; sequence

Indexed keywords

AIR VOLUMES; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG; SEGMENTATION; SEQUENCE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; NONHUMAN; SWINE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551516943     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2086457     Document Type: Article

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