Enhancement and detection of lung nodules with multiscale filters in CT images

Proceedings - 2008 4th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 717-720

  Takemura, Shingo ^a   Han, Xianhua ^a   Chen, Yen Wei ^a   Ito, Kazuhiro ^b   Nishikwa, Ikuko ^a   Ito, Masahiro ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ayabe City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WAVE FILTERS;

AND DETECTIONS; AND OPERATORS; COMPUTING TIMES; CONTINUOUS; CT IMAGES; CT SLICES; DIAGNOSE SYSTEMS; EARLY STAGES; LUNG CANCERS; LUNG NODULES; LUNG NODULES DETECTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGES; MULTISCALE FILTERS; SLICE IMAGES; STEP METHODS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 54049147789     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2008.303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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