Pulmonary nodule segmentation in thoracic 3D CT images integrating boundary and region information.
Yoshiki KawataNoboru NikiHironobu OhmatsuMasahiko KusumotoRyutaro KakinumaKiyoshi MoriHiroyuki NishiyamaKenji EguchiMasahiro KanekoNoriyuki MoriyamaPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2003)
Keyphrases
- ct scans
- automated segmentation
- pulmonary nodules
- boundary and region information
- thoracic ct images
- ct images
- image segmentation
- texture segmentation
- x ray
- medical imaging
- computer aided
- segmentation algorithm
- lung parenchyma
- ct data
- computer aided diagnosis
- region growing
- segmentation method
- medical images
- accurate segmentation
- computer tomography
- level set
- computed tomography
- image analysis
- medical image processing
- image processing
- shape prior
- fully automatic
- cross sectional
- clinical practice
- automatic segmentation
- completely automated
- mr images
- machine learning