Robust anisotropic Gaussian fitting for volumetric characterization of pulmonary nodules in multislice CT

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 409-423

  Okada, Kazunori ^a   Comaniciu, Dorin ^a   Krishnan, Arun ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Siemens Medical Solutions ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic scale space; Chi square verification; Covariance estimation; Gaussian model fitting; Mean shift; Multiscale analysis; Multislice X ray CT image analysis; Part and nonsolid nodules; Pulmonary nodule characterization and segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAYS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANISOTROPIC SCALE-SPACE; CHI-SQUARE VERIFICATION; COVARIANCE ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN MODEL FITTING; MEAN SHIFT; MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS; MULTISLICE X-RAY CT IMAGE ANALYSIS; PART- AND NONSOLID NODULES; PULMONARY NODULE CHARACTERIZATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION; MEAN SHIFTS; MULTISCALE ANALYSIS; MULTISCALE X-RAY CT IMAGE ANALYSIS; PART- AND NON-SOLID NODULES; PULMONARY NODULE CHARACTERIZATION AND SEGMENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 19044373465     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2004.843172     Document Type: Article

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