Automated detection of lung nodules in CT images using shape-based genetic algorithm

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 408-417

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a   Ye, Xujiong ^a   Lin, XinYu ^a   Valdivieso, Manlio ^a   Amin, Hamdan ^a  

^a Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection; Genetic algorithm; Lung nodule detection; Shape index; Template matching

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RATES; GLOBAL NODULE INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; SHAPE INDEX;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GOLD STANDARD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG NODULE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHAPE INDEX; TECHNIQUE; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34447285504     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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