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Three-dimensional and Four-dimensional Cardiopulmonary Image Analysis
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Three-dimensional and Four-dimensional Cardiopulmonary Image Analysis

Andreas Wahle, Honghai Zhang, Fei Zhao, Kyungmoo Lee, Richard W Downe, Mark E Olszewski, Soumik Ukil, Juerg Tschirren, Hidenori Shikata and Milan Sonka
Image-Based Computational Modeling of the Human Circulatory and Pulmonary Systems, pp.35-102
Springer US
11/03/2010
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7350-4_2

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Abstract

Modern medical imaging equipment can provide data that describe the anatomy and function of structures in the body. Image segmentation techniques are needed to take this raw data and identify and delineate the relevant cardiovascular and pulmonary anatomy to put it into a form suitable for 3D and 4D modeling and simulation. These methods must be able to handle large multi-dimensional data sets, possibly limited in resolution, corrupted by noise and motion blur, and sometimes depicting unusual anatomy due to natural shape variation across the population or due to disease processes. This chapter describes modern techniques for robust, automatic image segmentation. Several applications in cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging are presented.
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