Evaluation of contrast enhancement filters for lung nodule detection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4633 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 878-888

  Pereira, Carlos S ^a,b   Mendonça, Ana Maria ^a,b   Campilho, Aurélio ^a,b  

^a INEB INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA BIOMÉDICA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT FILTERS; IRIS FILTER (IF);

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 37849034164     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74260-9_78     Document Type: Conference Paper

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