Classification of Liver Disease from CT Images Using a Support Vector Machine

Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 396-402

  Lee, Chien Cheng ^a   Chen, Sz Han ^a   Chiang, Yu Chun ^a  

^a YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

co occurrence matrix; hemangioma; hepatoma; liver cyst; SVM

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; COOCCURRENCE MATRIXES (COM); CT IMAGE; HAEMANGIOMA; HEPATOMA; LIVER CYSTS; LIVER DISEASE; REGION-OF-INTEREST; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 50949128065     PISSN: 13430130     EISSN: 18838014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.20965/jaciii.2007.p0396     Document Type: Article

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