Fractal analysis of small peripheral pulmonary nodules in thin-section CT evaluation of the lung-nodule interfaces

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 573-578

  Kido, Shoji ^a   Kuriyama, Keiko ^a   Higashiyama, Masahiko ^a   Kasugai, Tsutomu ^a   Kuroda, Chikazumi ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computer; Digital; Fractal; Image analysis; Lungs; Nodule

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL; GREY SCALE IMAGES; HAMARTOMA; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; LUNG; LUNG NODULE; NODULE; PULMONARY NODULES; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUBERCULOMA;

EID: 0036657320     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200207000-00017     Document Type: Article

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