Automated Detection of Small Pulmonary Nodules in Whole Lung CT Scans

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 579-593

  Enquobahrie, Andinet A ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; compute aided detection (CAD); CT; lung cancer screening; pulmonary nodules; segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34047273744     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.01.029     Document Type: Article

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