Hierarchical patch-based sparse representation-a new approach for resolution enhancement of 4D-CT lung data

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1993-2005

  Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Wu, Guorong ^a   Yap, Pew Thian ^a   Feng, Qianjin ^b   Lian, Jun ^a   Chen, Wufan ^b   Shen, Dinggang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive dictionary; four dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) lung data; hierarchical patch based sparse representation; resolution enhancement

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; CUBIC-SPLINE INTERPOLATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (4D-CT); IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; INTERPOLATION; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 84877301335     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2202245     Document Type: Article

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