Automated detection of pulmonary nodules in CT scans

Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, CIMCA 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 799-803

  Antonelli, M ^a   Frosini, G ^a   Lazzerini, B ^a   Marcelloni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGES; PULMONARY NODULES; REGIONS OF INTEREST (ROI); ROBUST FUZZY C-MEANS (RFCM) ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 33847207798     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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