Characterization of pulmonary nodules on computer tomography (CT) scans: The effect of additive white noise on features selection and classification performance

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6512, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages

  Osicka, Teresa ^a,c,d   Freedman, Matthew T ^a,b   Ahmed, Farid ^c,d  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d Department of Oncology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Image noise; Lung nodules features; Wavelet coefficients

Indexed keywords

IMAGE NOISE; LUNG NODULES; NODULES FEATURES; WAVELET COEFFICIENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; WHITE NOISE;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

EID: 36248956674     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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