Lung area extraction from 3D chest X-ray CT images using a shape model generated by a variable Be'zier surface.
Takayuki KitasakaKensaku MoriJun-ichi HasegawaJun-ichiro ToriwakiPublished in: Systems and Computers in Japan (2003)
Keyphrases
- shape model
- pulmonary nodules
- statistical shape model
- chest radiographs
- active shape model
- anatomical structures
- point distribution model
- lung cancer
- global shape
- level set segmentation
- ct data
- ct images
- shape variations
- energy function
- deformable shapes
- shape variability
- computed tomography
- shape modeling
- ct scans
- shape prior
- computer aided
- x ray
- three dimensional
- shape deformations
- active shape
- x ray images
- active appearance models
- segmentation algorithm
- d objects