Automatic lung segmentation method for MRI-based lung perfusion studies of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Peter KohlmannJan StrehlowBetram JobstStefan KrassJan-Martin KuhnigkAngela AnjorinOliver SedlaczekSebastian LeyHans-Ulrich KauczorMark Oliver WielpützPublished in: Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. (2015)
Keyphrases
- segmentation method
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- ct images
- medical images
- medical imaging
- image segmentation
- ct scans
- automated segmentation
- computed tomography
- region growing
- lung cancer
- fully automatic segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- magnetic resonance images
- multislice
- mr imaging
- shape prior
- active contour model
- active contours
- model based segmentation
- anatomical structures
- magnetic resonance imaging
- deformable models
- segmentation result
- image segmentation methods
- spect images
- white matter
- segmented images
- manual segmentation
- clinical data
- imaging modalities
- accurate segmentation
- region of interest
- remote sensing
- energy function
- pairwise