Reduction of False Positives in Lung Nodule Detection Using a Two-Level Neural Classification

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 206-217

  Lin, Jyh Shyan ^a   Shih Chung, B ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Freedman, Matthew T ^a   Mun, Seong K ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

AUTOMATIC SUSPECT LOCALIZATION; FALSE POSITIVE FRACTION DETECTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; MULTILEVEL OUTPUT ENCODING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; TRUE POSITIVE FRACTION DETECTION; TWO LEVEL NEURAL CLASSIFICATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0030126415     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.491422     Document Type: Article

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