Computer-assisted diagnosis for early stage pleural mesothelioma: Towards automated detection and quantitative assessment of pleural thickenings from thoracic CT images

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-331

  Chaisaowong, Kraisorn ^a,b   Jager P ^a   Vogel, S ^a   Knepper, A ^a   Kraus, T ^c   Aach, T ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY NORTH BANGKOK   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic image processing algorithms; Computer assisted diagnosis; Malignant pleural mesothelioma; Pleural thickening; Thoracic spiral computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLEURA MESOTHELIOMA; PLEURA THICKENING; PLEURECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34249328537     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/ME9050     Document Type: Article

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