Three-dimensional lung tumor segmentation from x-ray computed tomography using sparse field active models

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 851-865

  Awad, Joseph ^a   Owrangi, Amir ^a   Villemaire, Lauren ^a   O'Riordan, Elaine ^b   Parraga, Grace ^b   Fenster, Aaron ^b  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D segmentation; CT images; level set; Lung tumors; sparse field active surface

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT; X RAYS;

3D SEGMENTATION; ACTIVE SURFACES; CT IMAGE; LEVEL SET; LUNG TUMOR;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84856976617     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3676687     Document Type: Article

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