Three-dimensional CT image retrieval in a database of pulmonary nodules

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Kawata, Y ^a   Niki, N ^a   Ohmatsu, H ^b   Kusumoto, M ^c   Kakinuma, R ^b   Mori, K ^d   Nishiyama, H ^e   Eguchi, K ^f   Kaneko, M ^c   Moriyama, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^d TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^e The Social Health Medical Center   (Japan)

^f TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

LINEAR INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUE; PULMONARY NODULES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DATABASE;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0036448049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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