Multifractal texture analysis of perfusion lung scans as a potential diagnostic tool for acute pulmonary embolism

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-25

  Tourassi, Georgia D ^a   Frederick, Erik D ^b   Floyd, Carey E ^b   Coleman, R Edward ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Fractal analysis; Image processing; Lung perfusion; Neural networks; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; FRACTALS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

MULTIFRACTAL TEXTURE ANALYSIS; PERFUSION LUNG SCANS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

MACROSALB TC 99M;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRACTALS; HUMAN; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 0035238925     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4825(00)00024-X     Document Type: Article

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