Recently, in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and pulmonary tumor, CT images are used mainly. In the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, the information of pulmonary arteries is important, and in the discrimination of the benign and malignant pulmonary tumors, the information of pulmonary veins is important. But it is impossible to distinguish easily between pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins, because there are not differences of pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins on CT values. We have developed a CAD system for classifying pulmonary arteries and pulmonary vessels and bronchial tubes using this relationship. We examined and compared lung blood vessels tracing originally by guidance of the doctor with the lung blood vessels distinguished by this method.
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