Recognizing emphysema - A neural network approach

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 512-515

  Friman, Ola ^a   Borga, Magnus ^a   Lundberg, Mikael ^a   Tylént, Ulf ^b   Knutsson, Hans ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING;

EMPHYSEMA; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER;

NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; CT IMAGE; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; PATIENT DATA;

EID: 5644287223     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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