Pulmonary nodule classification based on nodule retrieval from 3-D thoracic CT image database

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3217, Issue 1 PART 2, 2004, Pages 838-846

  Kawata, Yoshiki ^a   Niki, Noboru ^a   Ohmatsu, Hironobu ^b   Kusumoto, Masahiko ^c   Kakinuma, Ryutaro ^c   Yamada, Kouzo ^d   Mori, Kiyoshi ^e   Nishiyama, Hiroyuki ^f   Eguchi, Kenji ^g   Kaneko, Masahiro ^c   Moriyama, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KANAGAWA CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^e TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^f The Social Health Insurance Medical Center   (Japan)

^g TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISEASES; MORPHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SEARCH ENGINES;

HISTOGRAMS; LUNG CANCER; PULMONARY NODULES; QUERY NODULES; CT IMAGE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE GUIDED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INTERNAL FEATURES; LARGE DATABASE; THORACIC CT; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

IMAGE RETRIEVAL; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 20344401063     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30136-3_102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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