Automated extraction and diagnosis of lung emphysema from lung CT images using artificial neural network

2006 SICE-ICASE International Joint Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2306-2311

  Liang, Tan Kok ^a   Tanaka, Toshiyuki ^a   Nakamura, Hidetoshi ^b   Ishizaka, Akitoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Automated extraction and diagnosis; Image matching method; Lung CT images

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; BRONCHIOLES; BRONCHOSCOPY; EMPHYSEMA;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN MATCHING; TISSUE;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250785032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SICE.2006.315359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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