Efficient ribcage segmentation from CT scans using shape features

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2899-2902

  Xu, Ziyue ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Jonsson, Colleen ^b   Jain, Sanjay ^c   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

iterative relative fuzzy connectedness; multi scale Hessian analysis; Rib cage segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FERRET; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; RABBIT; RADIOGRAPHY; RIB;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FERRETS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RABBITS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RIBS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84914106979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6944229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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