A software system for the simulation of chest lesions

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6515, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ryan, John T ^a   McEntee, Mark ^a   Barrett, Saoirse ^a   Evanoff, Michael ^b   Manning, David ^c   Brennan, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b American Board of Radiology   (United States)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest lesion; JAFROC; ROC; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHTING; RADIOLOGY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CHEST LESION; LESION IMAGES; LUNG-MAP; SOFTWARE SYSTEM;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

EID: 35148890820     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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