CT based computerized identification and analysis of human airways: A review

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2603-2616

  Pu, Jiantao ^a   Gu, Suicheng ^a   Liu, Shusen ^b   Zhu, Shaocheng ^c   Wilson, David ^a   Siegfried, Jill M ^d   Gur, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c HENAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; computer aided diagnosis; human airway; morphological analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

CLINICAL APPLICATION; COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS; HUMAN AIRWAY; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; THERAPEUTIC EFFICACY; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861642570     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4703901     Document Type: Article

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