Reduction of false positives by internal features for polyp detection in CT-based virtual colonoscopy

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3602-3616

  Wang, Zigang ^a   Liang, Zhengrong ^a   Li, Lihong ^a,b   Li, Xiang ^a,c   Li, Bin ^a   Anderson, Joseph ^a   Harrington, Donald ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic polyps; Computer aided detection; CT based virtual colonoscopy; Shape index; Texture feature

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; TEXTURES;

COLONIC POLYPS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; CT-BASED VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; SHAPE INDEXES; TEXTURE FEATURES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; OCCULT BLOOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645002613     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2122447     Document Type: Article

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