Nodule detection in digital chest radiography: Part of image background acting as pure noise

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 114, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 102-108

  Båth, Magnus ^a   Håkansson, Markus ^a   Börjesson, Sara ^a   Kheddache, Susanne ^a   Grahn, Anna ^b   Bochud, François O ^c   Verdun, Francis R ^c   Månsson, Lars Gunnar ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG HILUS; LUNG NODULE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SIMULATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; ROC CURVE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; X-RAYS;

EID: 21244483935     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/nch523     Document Type: Article

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