Polyp enhancing level set evolution of colon wall: Method and pilot study

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1649-1656

  Konukoglu, Ender ^b   Acar, Burak ^a,b   Paik, David S ^c   Beaulieu, Christopher F ^c   Rosenberg, Jarrett ^c   Napel, Sandy ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC); Computer Aided Detection and Diagnosis; Interface propagation; Level Set Evolution; Optical Colonoscopy (OC); Polyp enhancement; Small and flat polyps; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COLONOGRAPHY (CTC); INTERFACE PROPAGATION; POLYP ENHANCEMENT; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

TUMORS;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COLON; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; COLON; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 36549039015     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.901429     Document Type: Article

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