Segmentation of the pulmonary nodule and the attached vessels in the CT scan of the chest using morphological features and topological skeleton of the nodule.
Mahsa Bank TavakoliMahdi OroojiMehdi TeimouriRamita ShahabifarPublished in: IET Image Process. (2020)
Keyphrases
- pulmonary nodules
- ct scans
- automated segmentation
- computer aided detection
- ct images
- thoracic ct images
- morphological features
- computed tomography
- computer tomography
- x ray
- medical images
- lymph nodes
- medical imaging
- computer aided diagnosis
- ct data
- lung parenchyma
- lung nodules
- anatomical structures
- rigid registration
- cross sectional
- fracture detection
- low dose
- region of interest
- vessel segmentation
- segmentation algorithm
- level set
- segmentation method
- treatment planning
- computer aided
- computer vision
- image processing
- feature vectors
- medical image processing
- blood vessels
- image registration
- imaging modalities
- three dimensional
- region growing
- image segmentation
- shape prior
- feature selection