The effect of edge-preserving image smoothing on automatic colonic polyp detection for CT colonography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6143 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pilkinton, David ^a   Bitter, Ingmar ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Campbell, Shannon ^a   Choi, J Richard ^b,c   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Anisotropic smoothing; Colon; Colon cancer; Colonic polyp detection; Computer aided detection; CT; Edge preserving smoothing; Image processing

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ANISOTROPIC SMOOTHING; COLON; COLON CANCER; COLONIC POLYP DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; EDGE-PRESERVING SMOOTHING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33745348690     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.653985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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