Computer Aided Diagnosis of CT focal liver lesions by an ensemble of Neural Network and statistical classifiers

IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1929-1934

  Valavanis, I ^a   Mougiakakou, S G ^a   Nikita, K S ^a   Nikita, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAY LEVEL DIFFERENCE METHOD (GLDM); PROBABILISTIC NEURAL NETWORK (PNN); REGIONS OF INTEREST (ROI); SPATIAL GRAY LEVEL DEPENDENCE MATRIX (SGLDM);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOLOGY; TISSUE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 10844236394     PISSN: 10987576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2004.1380907     Document Type: Conference Paper

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