On automatic temporal subtraction of chest radiographs and its enhancement for lung cancers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1867-1872

  Zhao, H ^a   Lo, S C B ^a   Freedman, M T ^a   Seong Ki Mun, ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Lung cancer; Signal to noise ratio; Temporal subtraction

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TUMORS;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034847220     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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