Automatic pulmonary fissure detection and lobe segmentation in CT chest images

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Qi, Shouliang ^a   van Triest, Han J W ^a   Yue, Yong ^b   Xu, Mingjie ^a   Kang, Yan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Computed aided diagnosis; CT; Lobe; Lung; Pulmonary fissure; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; DETECTORS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; COMPUTED-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMPLICIT SURFACE FITTING; LOBE; LUNG; PULMONARY FISSURE; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; UNIFORM COST SEARCHES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRONCHUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FILTER; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY FISSURE; RADIAL BASED FUNCTION; THORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

EUCLIDIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84900829981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-13-59     Document Type: Article

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