Maximal Contrast Adaptive Region Growing for CT Airway Tree Segmentation
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چکیده
We introduce a self-assessed region growing technique capable of producing airway segmentations with reasonable quality. The main advantages of our technique are its robustness against leakage, and the absence of any training stages. Our method can not be considered fully automatic as it requires manual seeding of the trachea region, although there exists a variety of techniques to circumvent this requirement.
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