Accuracy improvement of pulmonary nodule detection based on spatial statistical analysis of thoracic CT scans

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E90-D, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1168-1174

  Takizawa, Hotaka ^a   Yamamoto, Shinji ^b   Shiina, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHUKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer Aided Diagnosis; Detection of pulmonary nodules; Spatial relationship; Statistical analysis; Thoracic CT scans

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); PULMONARY NODULE DETECTION; PULMONARY NODULES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACIC CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 48349084576     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: 17451361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.8.1168     Document Type: Article

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