Automatic lung nodule matching on sequential CT images

Computers in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 623-634

  Hong, Helen ^a   Lee, Jeongjin ^b   Yim, Yeny ^b  

^a Seoul Women University   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Affine transformation; CT; Distance map; Distance measure; Lung nodule; Optimization; Surface registration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ROBUST CONTROL;

DISTANCE MAP; DISTANCE MEASURE; LUNG NODULE; SURFACE REGISTRATION; TRANSLATIONAL MISMATCH;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG NODULE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42749087451     PISSN: 00104825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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