Automatic segmentation and identification of solitary pulmonary nodules on follow-up CT scans based on local intensity structure analysis and non-rigid image registration.
Bin ChenHideto NaitoYoshihiko NakamuraTakayuki KitasakaDaniel RueckertHirotoshi HonmaHirotsugu TakabatakeMasaki MoriHiroshi NatoriKensaku MoriPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2011)
Keyphrases
- pulmonary nodules
- ct scans
- automatic segmentation
- ct data
- computer aided detection
- computer aided
- manual segmentation
- ct images
- abdominal organs
- x ray
- accurate segmentation
- computed tomography
- computer aided diagnosis
- segmentation algorithm
- registration process
- computer tomography
- image analysis
- region of interest
- automated segmentation
- rigid registration
- registration accuracy
- motion estimation
- medical images
- graph cuts
- lung cancer
- breast cancer