Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT'09)

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2093-2107

  Lo, Pechin ^a,b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^c,d   Reinhardt, Joseph M ^e   Yavarna, Tarunashree ^e   De Jong, Pim A ^f   Irving, Benjamin ^g   Fetita, Catalin ^h,i   Ortner, Margarete ^h,i   Pinho, Rômulo ^j   Sijbers, Jan ^k   Feuerstein, Marco ^l   Fabijanska, Anna ^m   Bauer, Christian ^n,o   Beichel, Reinhard ^e,p   Mendoza, Carlos S ^q,r   Wiemker, Rafael ^s   Lee, Jaesung ^t   Reeves, Anthony P ^t   Born, Silvia ^u   Weinheimer, Oliver ^v   Van Rikxoort, Eva M ^c   Tschirren, Juerg ^w   Mori, Ken ^x   Odry, Benjamin ^y   Naidich, David P ^z   Hartmann, Ieneke ^aa   Hoffman, Eric A ^p   Prokop, Mathias ^c,f   Pedersen, Jesper H ^ab   De Bruijne, Marleen ^a,aa   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e IA United States   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h TELECOM SUDPARIS   (France)

ⁱ MAP5 CNRS UMR 8145   (France)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^l TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^m LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

ⁿ GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^o USA ^*  (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^r CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^s PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^t Cornell University   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^v JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^w VIDA Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

^x NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^y SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^z NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ab Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

more..

Author keywords

Computed tomography; evaluation; pulmonary airways; segmentation

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY TREE SEGMENTATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PULMONARY AIRWAYS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION QUALITY;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LUNG; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA;

EID: 84877587678     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2209674     Document Type: Article

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