Automatic three-dimensional rib centerline extraction from CT scans for enhanced visualization and anatomical context

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7962, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ramakrishnan, Sowmya ^a   Alvino, Christopher ^b   Grady, Leo ^b   Kiraly, Atilla ^b  

^a Volt Workforce Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

centerline extraction; chest CT; Kalman fillter; Rib tracing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; BONE METASTASIS; CENTERLINE EXTRACTION; CENTERLINES; CHEST CT; CROSS SECTION; CT SCAN; DATA SETS; KALMAN FILLTER; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; RADIOLOGY WORKSTATIONS; RANDOM WALKERS; RECONSTRUCTION KERNEL; RIB TRACING; SPINAL CANALS; STRUCTURAL BOUNDARY; THORACIC CT; THREE STAGES; TRACING TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79957971968     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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