Pulmonary nodule registration in serial CT scans based on rib anatomy and nodule template matching

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1336-1347

  Shi, Jiazheng ^a,b   Sahiner, Berkman ^a   Chan, Heang Ping ^a   Hadjiiski, Lubomir ^a   Zhou, Chuan ^a   Cascade, Philip N ^a   Bogot, Naama ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a   Wu, Yi Ta ^a   Wei, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Cross correlation; Lung nodules; Registration; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LOCATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EXPECTATION - MAXIMIZATIONS; INTERVAL CHANGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MAXIMUM CROSS CORRELATIONS; REGISTRATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 34147121437     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2712575     Document Type: Article

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