Novel method and applications for labeling and identifying lymph nodes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6511, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Kiraly, Atilla P ^a   Naidich, David P ^b   Guendef, Lutz ^c   Zhang, Li ^a   Novak, Carol L ^a  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airway tree; Aorta; Cancer staging; Chest CT; Classification; Labeling; Lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY TREE; CANCER STAGING; LYMPH NODES;

BIOPSY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; STANDARDIZATION; TUMORS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35148865331     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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