Lung X-ray image analysis for automated detection of early cancer and tuberculosis

WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2347-2354

  Le, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer and tuberculosis; Computer aided diagnosis; Disease detection; Image segmentation; Medical image analysis; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ONCOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DISEASE DETECTION; MODIFIED WATERSHED SEGMENTATION APPROACH;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 33751576419     PISSN: 17900832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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