Characterization of pulmonary nodules features on Computer Tomography (CT) scans using wavelet coefficients and heat maps

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 III, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Osicka, Teresa ^a,b   Freedman, Matthew T ^a   Ahmed, Farid ^b,c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^c Catholic University of America   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Heat Map; Lung nodules; Wavelet coefficients

Indexed keywords

HEAT MAP; LUNG NODULES; REGION-OF-INTEREST (ROI); WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADIOLOGY; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745126652     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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