Extraction of bronchus regions from 3D chest X-ray CT images by using structural features of bronchus

International Congress Series

Volumn 1256, Issue C, 2003, Pages 240-245

  Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Hasegawa, Jun ichi ^b   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Toriwaki, Jun ichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bronchus; Chest X ray CT image; Segmentation; Volume of interest

Indexed keywords

EID: 85023013418     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5131(03)00329-7     Document Type: Article

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