Computerized detection of lung tumors in PET/CT images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2320-2323

  Jafar, Iyad ^a   Hao, Ying ^a,b   Shields, Anthony F ^b,c   Muzik, Otto ^b,c  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; FUZZY SETS; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

GRAY-LEVEL THRESHOLDING; LUNG TUMORS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLDING;

TUMORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047112463     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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