A hybrid multi-scale approach to automatic airway tree segmentation from CT scans

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1308-1311

  Xu, Ziyue ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Foster, Brent ^a   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway tree segmentation; fuzzy connectivity; grayscale morphological reconstruction; multi scale vesselness; region growing

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY TREE SEGMENTATION; FUZZY CONNECTIVITY; MORPHOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; MULTI-SCALE VESSELNESS; REGION GROWING;

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881624538     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2013.6556772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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