Suppression of the contrast of ribs in chest radiographs by means of massive training artificial neural network

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 1109-1119

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Dual energy subtraction; Lung nodule; Rib suppression

Indexed keywords

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY SUBTRACTION; LUNG NODULE; RIB SUPPRESSION;

BONE; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPACITY; PATIENT MONITORING;

RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644220237     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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