Automated detection of pulmonary embolism (PE) in computed tomographic pulmonary angiographic (CTPA) images: multiscale hierachical expectation-maximization segmentation of vessels and PEs.
Chuan ZhouHeang-Ping ChanLubomir M. HadjiiskiAamer ChughtaiSmita PatelPhilip N. CascadeBerkman SahinerJun WeiJun GeElla A. KazerooniPublished in: Medical Imaging: Computer-Aided Diagnosis (2007)
Keyphrases
- automated detection
- lung parenchyma
- multiscale
- cell nuclei
- edge detection
- lung cancer
- segmentation method
- segmentation algorithm
- image analysis
- lymph nodes
- pulmonary embolism
- ct images
- dermoscopy images
- image segmentation
- expectation maximization
- accurate segmentation
- automatic segmentation
- three dimensional
- region growing
- automated analysis
- fully automatic
- segmented images
- completely automated
- pulmonary nodules
- segmentation accuracy
- dual energy
- level set
- input image
- region of interest
- x ray
- automated segmentation
- image reconstruction
- microscopy images
- object segmentation