A pipeline for computer aided polyp detection

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 861-868

  Hong, Wei ^b   Qiu, Feng ^b   Kaufman, Arie ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Texture analysis; Virtual colonoscopy; Volume rendering

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION (CAD); TEXTURE ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY; VOLUME RENDERING;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA STRUCTURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33845602005     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2006.112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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