Recognition of bronchus in three-dimensional X-ray CT images with applications to virtualized bronchoscopy system

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 528-532

  Mori, Kensaku ^a   Hasegawa, Junichi ^b   Toriwaki, Junichiro ^a   Anno, Horfumi ^c   Katada, Kazuhiro ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; D REGION; ENDOSCOPY; EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; X RAYS;

CHEST X-RAY CT IMAGES; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; OPTIMUM THRESHOLD; REGION GROWING; REGION GROWING METHODS; SHAPE FEATURES; VIRTUAL BRONCHOSCOPY; X RAY CT IMAGES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84898811704     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.547003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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