Automatic polyp detection from CT colonography using mathematical morphology

International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences - ISPRS Archives

Volumn 37, Issue , 2008, Pages 823-827

  Shahbazi, Mozhdeh ^a   Sattari, Mehran ^a,b   Ghazi, Mojtaba ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Detection; Feature Detection; Feature Extraction; Feature Recognition; Image Processing; Medicine

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEDICINE; NOISE ABATEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

AUTOMATIC POLYP DETECTION; COLONIC POLYP DETECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; FEATURE DETECTION; FEATURE RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATOR; NOISE REDUCTION ALGORITHMS; TEMPLATE-MATCHING ALGORITHMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 75949086093     PISSN: 16821750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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