Improvement of method for computer-assisted detection of pulmonary nodules in CT of the chest

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 702-709

  Fiebich, M ^a   Wormanns, D ^a   Heindel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Chest; Computed tomography (CT); Computer assisted diagnosis; Detection; Image processing; Lung nodules; Screening; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

LUNG NODULES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0034845538     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431147     Document Type: Article

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