TY - GEN
T1 - An automated 3D emphysema extraction method using lung CT
AU - Liang, Tan Kok
AU - Tanaka, Toshiyuki
AU - Nakamura, Hidetoshi
AU - Shirahata, Toru
AU - Sugiura, Hiroaki
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease in which the airways and tiny air sacs (alveoli) inside the lung are partially obstructed or destroyed. Emphysema is what occurs as more and more of the walls between air sacs get destroyed. Computed tomography (CT) image has been a useful modality for assessing diffuse lung diseases, particularly, emphysema. At present, diagnosis of emphysema is done by using spirometry, X-rays, spiral chest CT-scan, bronchoscopy, blood tests and pulse oximetry. Our goal in this study is to automatically extract the locations of emphysematous lung tissuess in the lung CT and men visualize the extracted emphysematous lung tissues in 3D.
AB - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a disease in which the airways and tiny air sacs (alveoli) inside the lung are partially obstructed or destroyed. Emphysema is what occurs as more and more of the walls between air sacs get destroyed. Computed tomography (CT) image has been a useful modality for assessing diffuse lung diseases, particularly, emphysema. At present, diagnosis of emphysema is done by using spirometry, X-rays, spiral chest CT-scan, bronchoscopy, blood tests and pulse oximetry. Our goal in this study is to automatically extract the locations of emphysematous lung tissuess in the lung CT and men visualize the extracted emphysematous lung tissues in 3D.
KW - 3D visualization
KW - Emphysema
KW - Extraction of emphysema
KW - Lung CT
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U2 - 10.1109/SICE.2008.4655199
DO - 10.1109/SICE.2008.4655199
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:56749185381
SN - 9784907764296
T3 - Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference
SP - 3110
EP - 3114
BT - Proceedings of SICE Annual Conference 2008 - International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Information Technology
T2 - SICE Annual Conference 2008 - International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Information Technology
Y2 - 20 August 2008 through 22 August 2008
ER -