



@conference {2463,
	title = {Automatic delimitation of lung fields on chest radiographs},
	booktitle = {2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to NanoIEEE Int. Symp. Biomed. Imaging Macro Nano},
	series = {2004 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2004},
	note = {Conference code: 64593Cited By (since 1996): 1Export Date: 21 November 2012Source: ScopusLanguage of Original Document: EnglishCorrespondence Address: Mendon{\c c}a, A.M.; Inst. de Engenharia Biom{\'e}dica, Lab. de Sinai e Imagem Biomedica, Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, 4200-465 Porto, PortugalReferences: Tsujii, O., Freedman, M., Mun, S., Automated segmentation of anatomic regions in chest radiographs using an adaptive-sized hybrid neural network (1998) Medical Physics, 25, pp. 998-1007;Armato III, S., Giger, M., MacMahon, H., Computerized detection of abnormal asymetry in digital lateral chest radiographs (1994) Medical Physics, 21, pp. 1761-1768; 
Armato III, S., Giger, M., Ashizawa, K., MacMahon, H., Automated lung segmentation in digital lateral chest radiographs (1998) Medical Physics, 25, pp. 1507-1520; 
Carrascal, F., Carreira, J., Souto, M., Automatic calculation of total lung capacity from automatically traced lung boundaries in posterior-anterior and lateral digital chest radiographs (1998) Medical Physics, 25, pp. 1118-1131; 
Ginneken, B., Romeny, B., Automatic segmentation of lung fields in chest radiographs (2000) Medical Physics, 27, pp. 2445-2455; 
Li, L., Zheng, Y., Kallergi, M., Clark, R., Improved method for automatic identification of lung regions on chest radiographs (2001) Academic Radiology, 8, pp. 629-638; 
Monteiro, M., Mendon{\c c}a, A.M., Campilho, A., Lung field detection on chest radiographs (2002) Proceedings of VIIP02, IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, pp. 367-372. , J. Villanueva (eds.), Spain
Sponsors: IEEE},
	month = {2004///},
	pages = {1287 - 1290},
	address = {Arlington, VA},
	abstract = {The purpose of the research herein presented is the automatic delimitation of lung fields in posterior-anterior digital chest radiographs. In a computer-aided diagnosis system the precise location of the lungs is important as it allows the reduction of the region under analysis, decreasing the computation time and facilitating data compression. Furthermore, it allows the delimitation of the search area, easing the selective tuning of the abnormalities detection algorithms. The results produced by the automatic method were validated by comparison with manual contours traced by experienced radiologists. Two programs with friendly interfaces were developed for this purpose. {\textcopyright} 2004 IEEE.},
	keywords = {Algorithms, Chest radiographs, Computer aided diagnosis, Contour detection, Data compression, Edge detection, Image segmentation, Lung fields, Pulmonary diseases, Radiography, X ray analysis, X ray imaging},
	isbn = {0780383885 (ISBN)},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-17144373368\&partnerID=40\&md5=4f13427d02a5013364f4d761ccf5a7b8},
	author = {Mendon{\c c}a, A.M. and Da Silva, J.A. and Campilho, A.}
}
