Detection and recognition of lung abnormalities using deformable templates

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 738-741

  Farag, Aly A ^a   El Baz, Ayman ^a   Gimel'farb, Georgy ^b   Falk, Robert ^c  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BAYESIAN POST-CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN THORAX; LUNGS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFORMATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; TUMORS;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 10044253205     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2004.1334634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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