Automatic identification of colonic polyp in high-resolution CT images

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5370 I, Issue , 2004, Pages 155-162

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a   Amin, Hamdan ^a   Wong, Wing ^a   Dehkordi, Mandana Ebadian ^a   Kamangari, Nahid ^a   Roddie, Mary ^b   Costello, John ^c  

^a New Victoria Hospital ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b New Victoria Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curvature detection; Fuzzy connectivity; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RADIOLOGY; TUMORS;

COLON SEGMENTATION; COLONIC POLYP; CURVATURE DETECTION; FUZZY CONNECTIVITY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 5644295917     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535339     Document Type: Conference Paper

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