Automatic two-step detection of pulmonary nodules

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Dolejší, Martin ^a   Kybic, Jan ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

3D filtering; BW morphology; Computer aided diagnostic; Ellipsoid fitting; Nodule detection; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

3D FILTERING; BW MORPHOLOGY; ELLIPSOID FITTING; LUNGS PARENCHYMA; NODULE DETECTION; RADIO DENSITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 35248814440     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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