Automated segmentation of pulmonary nodule depicted on CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7963, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pu, Jiantao ^a   Tan, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided Detection (CAD); Lung Nodule; Segmentation; Shape analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CT IMAGE; GEOMETRIC SPACE; IMPLICIT FUNCTION; LUNG NODULE; NODULE SEGMENTATION; PARTIAL SURFACES; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; PULMONARY NODULES; SEED POINT; SEGMENTATION; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SHAPE CHARACTERISTICS; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION; SHAPE RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIFIC LOCATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; TRIANGLE MESH;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955770940     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878038     Document Type: Conference Paper

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