A CAD system for lung nodule detection based on an anatomical model and a fuzzy neural network

Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society - NAFIPS

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 448-453

  Antonelli, M ^a   Frosini, G ^a   Lazzerini, B ^a   Marcelloni, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COPYING; D REGION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY LOGIC;

ANATOMICAL MODELING; ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; PULMONARY PARENCHYMA; REGIONS OF INTEREST; ROBUST FUZZY C-MEANS; X-RAY ATTENUATION;

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 46749110025     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAFIPS.2006.365451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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