Segmentation of lymph node in longitudinal studies of thoracic CT images

• Main Author: Soo, Beng Beng.
• Other Authors: Poh Chueh Loo
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Optical instruments
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45168
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The assessment of lymph node is commonly used as a yardstick in diagnosis, staging, treatment and therapy control of tumours and their metastases. Current practice of the radiologists is to manually measure the major and minor axis of nodes based on experiences. This method is highly subjected to in...