A fully automatic CAD-CTC system based on curvature analysis for standard and low-dose CT data

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 888-901

  Chowdhury, Tarik A ^a   Whelan, Paul F ^b   Ghita, Ovidiu ^b  

^a BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Classification; Computed tomography (CT); Convexity test; Feature extraction; Low dose computed tomography colonography (CTC); Polyp detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA ACQUISITION; DOSIMETERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONVEXITY TEST; DOSE RADIATION; LOW DOSE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY COLONOGRAPHY; POLYP DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GEOMETRY; LUNG; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39749154842     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.909506     Document Type: Article

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