Vessel tree segmentation in presence of interstitial lung disease in MDCT

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 214-220

  Korfiatis, Panayiotis D ^a   Kalogeropoulou, Cristina ^b   Karahaliou, Anna N ^a   Kazantzi, Alexandra D ^b   Costaridou, Lena I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; image enhancement; image segmentation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA SETS; EIGENVALUE ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE FRACTIONS; HESSIAN MATRICES; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIELDS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTISCALES; OVER SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TREE SEGMENTATION; TREE STRUCTURES; TRUE POSITIVE FRACTIONS; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION; VESSEL ENHANCEMENT FILTER;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAMMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY DISEASES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79952462567     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2112668     Document Type: Article

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