Computer-aided analysis of airway trees in micro-CT scans of ex vivo porcine lung tissue

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 601-609

  Bauer, Christian ^a   Adam, Ryan ^a,b   Stoltz, David A ^a,b   Beichel, Reinhard R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway tree nomenclature; Airway tree segmentation; Cystic fibrosis; Micro CT; Pig

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY TREE SEGMENTATION; AIRWAY TREES; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; MICRO CT; PIG;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; MODEL STRUCTURES; TERMINOLOGY; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EX VIVO STUDY; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

EID: 84869092274     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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