Lung nodule segmentation using active contour modeling

2010 6th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, MVIP 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Keshani, Mohsen ^a   Azimifar, Zohreh ^a   Boostani, Reza ^a   Shakibafar, Alireza ^b  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

active contour; anatomical 3D feature; Lung nodule; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOUR MODELING; ACTIVE CONTOURS; ANATOMICAL 3D FEATURE; CHEST WALL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CT IMAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NODULE SEGMENTATION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; STOCHASTIC FEATURES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER VISION; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79961190328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IranianMVIP.2010.5941138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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