Probabilistic nodule filtering in thoracic CT scans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6144 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wu, Changhua ^a   Agam, Gady ^b  

^a KETTERING UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NODULE DETECTION SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC NODULE FILTERING; THORACIC CT SCANS;

BLOOD VESSELS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PULMONARY DISEASES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745167356     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.654233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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