Automatic extraction of 3D airway tree from multislice computed tomography images

Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 768-775

  Tan, Wenjun ^a,b   Yang, Jinzhu ^a,b   Bian, Zijian ^a   Gong, Zhaoxuan ^a,b   Zhao, Dazhe ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Airway Tree; FMM; Image Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION; FAST MARCHING METHOD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; TRACHEA; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

EID: 84911454066     PISSN: 21567018     EISSN: 21567026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1166/jmihi.2014.1318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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