%0 Conference Proceedings
%4 dpi.inpe.br/vagner/1999/10.27.15.23
%2 sid.inpe.br/banon/2001/03.30.15.57.17
%T Volume estimation and surgery planning from lung ct images
%D 1999
%A Ferreira, Ana Elisa,
%A Carvalho, Paulo C. P.,
%A Rodolfo A. Nunes,
%E Stolfi, Jorge,
%E Tozzi, Clésio Luis,
%B Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 12 (SIBGRAPI)
%C Campinas, SP, Brazil
%8 17-20 Oct. 1999
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Computação
%J Porto Alegre
%S Proceedings
%K surgery planning, lung, ct images.
%X We describe an on-going project involving the development of tools to assist the planning of lung reduction surgeries, a technique that has been proposed for the treatment of certain illnesses. Doctors need to decide which portions of the lungs to remove to achieve a certain reduction goal. This requires estimating lung capacity both before and after this surgery. Volume segmentation techniques are used to extract lung structures from the original data slices.
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