Automatic detection of ground glass opacity from the thoracic MDCT images by using density features

ICCAS 2007 - International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1274-1277

  Kim, Hyoungseop ^a   Nakashima, Tooru ^a   Itai, Yoshinori ^a   Maeda, Shinya ^a   Tan, Joo Kooi ^a   Ishikawa, Seiji ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ground glass opacity; Linear discriminant function; Tophat transformation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLASS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPACITY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

AUTOMATIC DETECTIONS; BINARIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS; CT IMAGES; DENSITY FEATURES; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION; LUNG CANCERS; LUNG REGIONS; MDCT IMAGES; MULTI DETECTORS; RECOGNITION RATES; REGION OF INTERESTS; TOPHAT TRANSFORMATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 48349083583     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCAS.2007.4406532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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