The impact of pulmonary nodule size estimation accuracy on the measured performance of automated nodule detection systems

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6915, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fotin, Sergei V ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm evaluation and validation; Automated nodule detection; Computer assisted diagnosis (CAD); CT; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM EVALUATION AND VALIDATION; AUTOMATED NODULE DETECTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 44349102952     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.770695     Document Type: Conference Paper

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