Segmentation and image analysis of abnormal lungs at CT: Current approaches, challenges, and future trends

Radiographics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1056-1076

  Mansoor, Awais ^a   Bagci, Ulas ^a   Foster, Brent ^a   Xu, Ziyue ^a   Papadakis, Georgios Z ^a   Folio, Les R ^a   Udupa, Jayaram K ^a   Mollura, Daniel J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRENDS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

FORECASTING; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84937574596     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.2015140232     Document Type: Article

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