Automated volumetric segmentation method for growth consistency of nonsolid pulmonary nodules in high-resolution

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6514, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages

  Browder, William A ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Apananosovich, Tatiyana V ^a   Cham, Matthew D ^b   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Nodule segmentation; Nonsolid nodules

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED VOLUMETRIC SEGMENTATION; BENIGN; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALIGNANT; NOISE-FILTERING STAGE; NONSOLID PULMONARY NODULES; ROBUST TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION; GROWTH RATE; ONCOLOGY; RADIOLOGY;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 35248838430     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.707775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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