Computerized lung nodule detection on thoracic CT images: Combined rule-based and statistical classifier for false positive reduction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 686-692

  Gurcan, M N ^a   Petrick, N ^a   Sahiner, B ^a   Chan, H P ^a   Cascade, P N ^a   Kazerooni, E A ^a   Hadjiiski, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography; Computer Aided Diagnosis; Linear Discriminant Analysis; Lung Nodule; Rule based Classification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA);

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0034846021     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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