CAD of colon cancer on CT colonography cases without cathartic bowel preparation

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2996-2999

  Linguraru, Marius George ^a   Zhao, Shan ^a   Van Uitert, Robert L ^a,b   Liu, Jiamin ^a   Fletcher, Joel G ^c   Manduca, Armando ^c   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b ICAD INC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DISEASES;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MINIMUM VARIANCE; PREPROCESSING MODULES; QUADRATIC REGRESSION; ROBUST ALGORITHM; TRUE POSITIVE RATES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; LAXATIVE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; COLON; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COLON; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAXATIVES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 61849104156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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