Robust pulmonary lobe segmentation against incomplete fissures

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gu, Suicheng ^a   Zheng, Qingfeng ^b   Siegfried, Jill ^c   Pu, Jiantao ^a,d  

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

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY CANCER HOSPITAL AND INSTITUTE   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

B spline fitting; Computer aided diagnosis; Piecewise fitting; Pulmonary lobe segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS; B-SPLINE FITTINGS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; IDENTIFICATION OF INDIVIDUALS; PIECE-WISE; QUADRATIC-B SPLINES; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; WEIGHTING STRATEGIES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; SPLINES;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 84874817047     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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