Pulmonary airways: 3-D reconstruction from multislice CT and clinical investigation

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1353-1364

  Fetita, Catalin I ^a   Prêteux, Françoise ^a   Beigelman Aubry, Catherine ^b   Grenier, Philippe ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; Bronchial tree; Clinical investigation; Connection cost; CT bronchography; Pulmonary airways; Virtual bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL INVESTIGATION; CONNECTION COSTS; DATA AQUISITION PROTOCOLS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 9244243057     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.826945     Document Type: Article

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