Digital bowel cleansing for computer-aided detection of polyps in fecaltagging CT colonography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cai, Wenli ^a   Nappi, Janne ^a   Zalis, Micheal E ^a   Harris, Gordon J ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal; Computer aided diagnosis; X ray and CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ABDOMINAL; FECAL MATERIALS; X-RAY AND CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745143610     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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