Initial development of a computer-aided diagnosis tool for solitary pulmonary nodules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4322, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 710-717

  Catarious, David M ^a   Baydush, Alan H ^a,b   Floyd, Carey E ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Computer aided diagnosis; Feature extraction; Linear discriminant analysis; Pulmonary nodule classification; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY;

LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS (LDA);

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0034850939     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.431148     Document Type: Article

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