Lung Segmentation by New Curve Stopping Function Using Geodesic Active Contour Model

Chul Ho WON  Dong Hun KIM  Jung Hyun LEE  Ki Won YOON  Sang Hyo WOO  Young Ho YOON  Min Kyu KIM  Jin Ho CHO 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences  Vol.E89-A  No.6  pp.1727-1729
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Papers Selected from 2005 International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communications (ITC-CSCC2005))
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Keyword: 
lung detection,  geodesic active contour model,  curve stopping function, 

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Summary: 
To detect lung area, this paper proposes curve stopping function that is based on CT coefficient of area of lung parenchyma instead of existing edge indication function. The proposed method was compared numerically using various measures and this method can detect better lung parenchyma region than existing methods. In addition, detecting procedure of the area of lung parenchyma was visually verified in lung images.