Semi-automatic central-chest lymph-node definition from 3D MDCT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lu, Kongkuo ^a   Higgins, William E ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

3D MDCT imaging; computer aided diagnosis; live wire; Lymph node; Mountain stations; pulmonary imaging; segmentation

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION; WIRE;

COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LIVE WIRE; LYMPH NODE; MULTI DETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES (MDCT); PULMONARY IMAGING; SEGMENTATION METHODS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860750568     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.839515     Document Type: Conference Paper

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