Automatic segmentation of the pulmonary lobes from chest CT scans based on Fissures, Vessels, and Bronchi

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 210-222

  Lassen, Bianca ^a   Van Rikxoort, Eva M ^a,b   Schmidt, Michael ^a   Kerkstra, Sjoerd ^b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^b   Kuhnigk, Jan Martin ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fissure segmentation; lung lobe segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; AVERAGE DISTANCE; BRONCHIAL TREE; CHEST CT SCANS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; SEGMENTATION QUALITY; WATERSHED TRANSFORMATIONS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; WATERSHEDS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG LOBE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; WATERSHED; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873309802     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2219881     Document Type: Article

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