A novel approach for automatic follow-up of detected lung nodules

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  El Baz, Ayman ^a   Gimel'Farb, Georgy ^b   Falk, Robert ^c   El Ghar, Mohamed A ^d  

^a University of Louisville ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Low dose computed tomography; Lung cancer; Non rigid registration; Rigid registration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; METADATA;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; GIBBS ENERGY FUNCTIONS; GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHMS; LOW DOSE; LUNG CANCER; MARKOV-GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; NONRIGID REGISTRATION; RIGID REGISTRATION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 48149091084     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2007.4379875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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