Automatic detection of ground glass opacities on lung HRCT using multiple neural networks

European Radiology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1463-1472

  Heitmann, K R ^a,b   Kauczor, H U ^a   Mildenberger, P ^a   Uthmann, T ^b   Perl, J ^b   Thelen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computers; CT; High resolution; Lung; Neural network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERT SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; RADIOGRAPHY;

EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031298642     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003300050318     Document Type: Article

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