A simple method for automated lung segmentation in x-ray CT images.
Bin ZhengJoseph Ken LeaderGlenn S. MaitzBrian E. ChapmanCarl R. FuhrmanRobert M. RogersFrank C. SciurbaAndrew PerezPaul ThompsonWalter F. GoodDavid GurPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image Processing (2003)
Keyphrases
- computed tomography images
- accurate segmentation
- image segmentation
- automated segmentation
- segmentation method
- image analysis
- fully automatic
- segmentation algorithm
- level set
- pulmonary nodules
- shape prior
- semi automated
- automatic segmentation
- multiscale
- computer aided
- background subtraction
- region growing
- fully automated
- ct images
- lung parenchyma
- segmentation errors
- lung disease
- automated analysis
- lung cancer
- segmentation accuracy
- semi automatic
- medical images
- edge detection
- ground truth
- three dimensional