Efficient computer-aided detection of ground-glass opacity nodules in thoracic CT images

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4449-4452

  Ye, Xujiong ^b   Lin, Xinyu ^b   Beddoe, Gareth ^a,b   Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a,c,d  

^a IEEE

^b Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

^c Medicsight PLC

^d KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

FALSE POSITIVE REGIONS; LUNG NODULES; OPACITY NODULES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

GLASS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

GLASS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57649222483     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353326     Document Type: Conference Paper

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