Quantifying tissue heterogeneity using quadtree decomposition

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4079-4082

  Subramaniam, K ^a   Hoffman, E A ^b   Tawhai, M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CT IMAGE; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LUNG TISSUE; QUAD-TREE DECOMPOSITION; SOFT TISSUE; STANDARD MODEL; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY; VOLUMETRIC COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880941670     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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