Detection of Ground Glass Opacities in lung CT images using gabor filters and neural networks

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 251-256

  Bastawrous, Hany Ayad ^a   Fukumoto, Takuya ^a   Nitta, Norihisa ^b   Tsudagawa, Masaru ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; CAD; Chest CT images; Gabor filters; Template matching

Indexed keywords

CHEST CT IMAGES; GABOR FILTERS; GROUND GLASS OPACITY (GGO); TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC FILTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPACITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845570712     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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