A fast automatic method of lung segmentation in CT images using mathematical morphology

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2419-2422

  Li, W ^a   Nie, S D ^a   Cheng, J J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Geodesic dilation; Lung segmentation; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GEODESY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; X RAYS;

AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION METHOD; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; GEODESIC DILATIONS; LUNG SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 83255176053     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: 14339277     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-36841-0_610     Document Type: Conference Paper

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