Discrimination of ground glass opacity on lung HRCT images using visual complexity measurements

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1116-1117

  Chen, Xu ^a   Zhuang, Tian Ge ^a   Hua, Yan Qing ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUADONG HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; GGO; Image analysis; Lempel ziv complexity; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; LEMPEL-ZIV COMPLEXITY; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036911514     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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