Computer aided diagnosis system for lung cancer based on helical CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1311, Issue , 1997, Pages 420-427

  Kawata, Y ^a   Katiazawa, K ^a   Toshioka, S ^a   Niki, N ^a   Satoh, H ^b   Ohmatsu, H ^c   Eguchi, K ^d   Moriyama, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; DETECTION ACCURACY; HELICAL CT; LUNG CANCER; MEAN CURVATURE; RECOVERY RATE; STAGE OF GROWTH; SURFACE CURVATURES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21944449727     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63508-4_151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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