Elimination of clavicle shadows to help automatic lung nodule detection on chest radiographs

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 22, Issue , 2008, Pages 488-491

  Simko G ^a   Orban G ^a   Maday P ^a   Horvath G ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bone shadow elimination; Clavicle detection; Medical image segmentation; Nodule detection

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BONY STRUCTURES; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CLAVICLE DETECTION; DUAL-ENERGY IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE; LUNG NODULE DETECTION; MEDICAL IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEW SOLUTIONS; NODULE DETECTION; ORIGINAL IMAGES; SHADOW ELIMINATION; SUPPRESSION ALGORITHM; TRUE POSITIVE; X RAY MACHINE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 70350627451     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89208-3_116     Document Type: Conference Paper

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