Computerized detection of pulmonary embolism in spiral CT angiography based on volumetric image analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1517-1523

  Masutani, Yoshitaka ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism; Segmentation; Volumetric image analysis

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASES; RESPIRATORY THERAPY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VESSELS; VOLUME IMAGE ANALYSIS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0036999660     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2002.806586     Document Type: Article

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