Automated segmentation refinement of small lung nodules in CT scans by local shape analysis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 1, 2011, Pages 3418-3428

  Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Lombardo, Simone ^a   Falchini, Massimo ^a   Picozzi, Giulia ^b   Mascalchi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b MISERICORDIA E DOLCE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; CT; lung nodules; segmentation; shape analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MODE; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; CORRECTION METHOD; CT; CT IMAGING; DATA SETS; GEODESIC DISTANCES; IMAGE DATABASE; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; INITIAL SEGMENTATION; INTERACTIVE MODE; LOCAL SHAPE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NODULES; LUNG STRUCTURES; MANUAL INTERACTION; NODULE SEGMENTATION; REPRODUCIBILITIES; ROUGH SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION QUALITY; SHAPE ANALYSIS; SMALL NODULES;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 82155191313     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2167621     Document Type: Article

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