Region-based clustering for lung segmentation in low-dose CT images

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1281, Issue , 2010, Pages 2061-2064

  Monteiro, Fernando C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Graph clustering; Lung segmentation; Pulmonary CT image; Watershed transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954560239     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3498354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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