Pseudo-enhancement correction for computer-aided detection in fecal-tagging CT colonography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Näppi, Janne ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a   Zalis, Michael ^a   Cai, Wenli ^a   Lefere, Philippe ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Stedelijk Ziekenhuis Roeselare   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Detection; Pre processing; X ray CT

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC COLON PHANTOM; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION (CAD); DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FECAL-TAGGING CT COLONOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 35248826101     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.710186     Document Type: Conference Paper

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