A new knowledge-based lung nodule detection system

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Su, Hongshun ^a   Qian, Wei ^b   Sankar, Ravi ^a   Sun, Xuejun ^b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACKBOARD ENVIRONMENT; LUNG NODULE DETECTION SYSTEM; SEMANTIC NETWORKS;

FUZZY SETS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PULMONARY DISEASES; SEMANTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544381306     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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