ROI extraction of chest CT images using adaptive opening filter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5032 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 869-876

  Yamada, Nobuhiro ^a   Kubo, Mitsuru ^a   Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Eguchi, Kenji ^b   Omatsu, Hironobu ^c   Kakinuma, Ryutarou ^c   Kaneko, Masahiro ^d   Kusumoto, Masahiko ^d   Nishiyama, Hiroyuki ^e   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Social Hlth Ins Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive Opening Filter; Bias field; CAD system; Lung cancer; Single slice CT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; FUZZY SETS; TUMORS;

ADAPTIVE OPENING FILTERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0042876901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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