Neural Networks for Computer-Aided Diagnosis: Detection of Lung Nodules in Chest Radiograms

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 344-357

  Coppini, Giuseppe ^a   Diciotti, Stefano ^b   Falchini, Massimo ^b   Villari, Natale ^b   Valli, Guido ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Gabor wavelet; Lung cancer; Medical imaging; Multiscale processing; Neural networks; Nodule detection

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOGRAPHY; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); GABOR WAVELETS; LUNG CANCER; MULTISCALE PROCESSING; NODULE DETECTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POLYGONATUM; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LUNG; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POLYGONATUM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1442264195     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2003.821313     Document Type: Article

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