Pulmonary vessel segmentation utilizing curved planar reformation and optimal path finding (CROP) in computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) for CAD applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8315, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Chuan ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Kuriakose, Jean W ^a   Chughtai, Aamer ^a   Wei, Jun ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir M ^a   Guo, Yanhui ^a   Patel, Smita ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Curved planar reformation; Optimal path finding; Pulmonary arteries; Vessel segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CURVED PLANAR REFORMATION; OPTIMAL PATH FINDINGS; PULMONARY ARTERY; VESSEL SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; TISSUE;

CROPS;

EID: 84874848514     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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