Feature-guided analysis for reduction of false positives in CAD of polyps for computed tomographic colonography

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1592-1601

  Näppi, Janne ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

3D algorithms; Computer aided detection; CT colonography; Medical image analysis; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY CLUSTERING; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REDUCTION;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); CT COLONOGRAPHY; D-ALGORITHM; DETECTION SENSITIVITY; FUZZY CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; GRADIENT CONCENTRATION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 17044457311     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1576393     Document Type: Article

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