Local pulmonary structure classification for computer-aided nodule detection

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Bahlmann, Claus ^a   Li, Xianlin ^b   Okada, Kazunori ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer Aided Diagnosis; CT; Directional Statistics; Pulmonary Nodules; Statistical Clustering

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PULMONARY DISEASES; TOPOLOGY;

COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIRECTIONAL STATISTICS; PULMONARY NODULES; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745119842     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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