Automated lung segmentation and computer-aided diagnosis for thoracic CT scans

International Congress Series

Volumn 1256, Issue C, 2003, Pages 977-982

  Armato, S G ^a   MacMahon, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Image processing; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006531342     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)00388-1     Document Type: Article

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