Improvement in automated detection of pulmonary nodules on helical x-ray CT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 II, Issue , 2004, Pages 824-832

  Lee, Yongbum ^a   Tsai, Du Yih ^a   Hara, Takeshi ^b   Fujita, Hiroshi ^b   Itoh, Shigeki ^c   Ishigaki, Takeo ^d  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); False positive elimination; Genetic algorithm (GA); Pulmonary nodule detection; Template matching

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERSONNEL; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADIOLOGY;

FALSE POSITIVE ELIMINATION; PULMONARY NODULE DETECTION; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644290739     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.536162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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