Lung segmentation in chest radiographs using anatomical atlases with nonrigid registration

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 577-590

  Candemir, Sema ^a   Jaeger, Stefan ^a   Palaniappan, Kannappan ^b   Musco, Jonathan P ^c   Singh, Rahul K ^b   Xue, Zhiyun ^a   Karargyris, Alexandros ^a   Antani, Sameer ^a   Thoma, George ^a   McDonald, Clement J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest X ray imaging; Computer aided detection; Image registration; Image segmentation; Tuberculosis (TB)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 84894027389     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2290491     Document Type: Article

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