Automatic mediastinal lymph node detection in chest CT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7260, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Feuerstein, Marco ^a   Deguchi, Daisuke ^a   Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a,b   Iwano, Shingo ^c   Imaizumi, Kazuyoshi ^a,c   Hasegawa, Yoshinori ^a,c   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Mori, Kensaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CAD Development; Classification; Lung; Other Organs; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAD DEVELOPMENT; CLASSIFICATION; LUNG; OTHER ORGANS; SEGMENTATION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR DETECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 66749157188     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.811101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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