Optimizing parameters of an open-source airway segmentation algorithm using different CT images

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Nardelli, Pietro ^a   Khan, Kashif A ^b   Corvò, Alberto ^a   Moore, Niamh ^b   Murphy, Mary J ^b   Twomey, Maria ^b   O'Connor, Owen J ^b   Kennedy, Marcus P ^b   Estépar, Raúl San José ^c   Maher, Michael M ^b   Cantillon Murphy, Pádraig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D Slicer; Airway segmentation; Computed tomography (CT); Image processing; ITK; Lung; Region growing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPEN SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; TOMOGRAPHY;

3-D SLICER; ITK; LUNG; PARAMETERS RECONSTRUCTION; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; REGION GROWING; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN SIZE; PIG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION DOSE; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACHEA; ANIMAL; BREATHING; BRONCHOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

SUIDAE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; BRONCHOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RESPIRATION; SOFTWARE; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRACHEA;

EID: 84933502074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1475925X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12938-015-0060-2     Document Type: Article

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