A multiscale Laplacian of Gaussian filtering approach to automated pulmonary nodule detection from whole-lung low-dose CT scans

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7260, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Fotin, Sergei V ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Biancardi, Alberto M ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm evaluation; Automated pulmonary nodule detection; Computed tomography (CT); Computer assisted diagnosis (CAD); Laplacian of Gaussian (LOG); Validation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM EVALUATION; AUTOMATED PULMONARY NODULE DETECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); COMPUTER-ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN (LOG); VALIDATION;

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 66749097839     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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