Computerized analysis of pulmonary nodules in topological and histogram feature spaces

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 332-335

  Kawata, Y ^a   Niki, N ^a   Ohmatsu, H ^b   Kusumoto, M ^b   Kakinuma, R ^a   Mori, K ^a   Nishiyama, H ^b   Eguchi, K ^a   Kaneko, M ^b   Moriyama, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY;

CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; COMPUTERIZED ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC DECISIONS; HISTOGRAM FEATURES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; K - MEANS CLUSTERING; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES;

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EID: 33750896645     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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