Fractal Analysis for Quantitative Evaluation of Diffuse Lung Abnormalities on Chest Radiographs: Use of Sub-ROIs

Journal of Thoracic Imaging

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 237-241

  Kido, Shoji ^a   Sasaki, Shinji ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diffuse lung disease; Digital chest radiography; Fractal analysis; Image processing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 0142241244     PISSN: 08835993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005382-200310000-00005     Document Type: Article

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