PULMONARY LOBE SEGMENTATION FROM CT IMAGES USING FISSURENESS, AIRWAYS, VESSELS AND MULTILEVEL B-SPLINES

Lobe detection from CT images is a challenging segmentation problem with important respiratory health care applications, including surgical planning and regional image analysis. We present a fully automated method for segmenting the pulmonary lobes. We first build a lobar approximation by applying a...

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Main Authors: Doel, T, Matin, T, Gleeson, F, Gavaghan, D, Grau, V, IEEE
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012