An open-source toolkit for the volumetric measurement of CT lung lesions

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 15256-15266

  Krishnan, Karthik ^a   Ibanez, Luis ^a   Turner, Wesley D ^a   Jomier, Julien ^a   Avila, Ricardo S ^a  

^a KITWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

ACQUISITION PROTOCOLS; GENERAL ARCHITECTURES; LESION SEGMENTATIONS; LEVEL SET ALGORITHM; REFERENCE ALGORITHM; REGION OF INTEREST; RUNNING APPLICATIONS; VOLUMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84886949462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015256     Document Type: Article

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