Development of an improved CAD scheme for automated detection of lung nodules in digital chest images

Medical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1395-1403

  Xu, Xin Wei ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a   Kobayashi, Takeshi ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network (ANN); Chest image; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Lung nodule; Rule based test

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATED DETECTION; CHEST IMAGE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); CURRENT PERFORMANCE; DIFFERENCE IMAGES; LUNG NODULE; RULE BASED;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030867439     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598028     Document Type: Article

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