Computer-aided diagnoses: Automatic detection of lung nodules

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1998-2006

  Carreira, María J ^a   Cabello, Diego ^a   Penedo, Manuel G ^a   Mosquera, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Computer aided diagnoses; Lung nodule detection; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; CONFIDENCE FACTORS; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION; VARIABLE THRESHOLDS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031732622     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598388     Document Type: Article

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