Computer-aided pulmonary image analysis in small animal models

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3896-3910

  Xu, Ziyue ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^b   Mansoor, Awais ^a   Kramer Marek, Gabriela ^c   Luna, Brian ^d   Kubler, Andre ^e   Dey, Bappaditya ^f   Foster, Brent ^g   Papadakis, Georgios Z ^a   Camp, Jeremy V ^h   Jonsson, Colleen B ⁱ   Bishai, William R ^f,j   Jain, Sanjay ^f   Udupa, Jayaram K ^k   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g University of California   (United States)

^h University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^j HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

airway lumen segmentation; CT; fuzzy connectedness; lung segmentation; machine learning; small animal model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRACTION; FUZZY FILTERS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

AIRWAY LUMEN SEGMENTATION; AIRWAY TREES; CT; FUZZY CONNECTEDNESS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; LUMEN SEGMENTATIONS; LUNG SEGMENTATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; PULMONARY IMAGES; SMALL ANIMAL MODEL;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; FERRET; FUZZY SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG VOLUME; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; ORTHOMYXOVIRUS INFECTION; PROCEDURES; RABBIT; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

FERRIC GLUCONATE; FERRIC ION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MACHINE LEARNING; ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84935038645     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4921618     Document Type: Article

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