An automatic detection method of lung cancers including ground glass opacities from chest X-ray CT images

Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 III, Issue , 2002, Pages 1672-1680

  Ezoe, Toshiharu ^a   Takizawa, Hotaka ^a   Yamamoto, Shinji ^a   Shimizu, Akinobu ^b   Matsumoto, Tohru ^c   Tateno, Yukio ^c   Iinuma, Takeshi ^c   Matsumoto, Mitsuomi ^d  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Nationa1 Inst Of a Radiological Science   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayes decision theories; Chest X ray CT Images; Computer Aided Diagnosis; Discriminate Functions; Lung cancer; Mahalanobis Distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; OPACITY; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES; TUMORS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

GROUND GLASS OPACITIES (GGO);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036030550     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467137     Document Type: Article

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