The LOG characteristic scale: A consistent measurement of lung nodule size in CT imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 397-409

  Diciotti, Stefano ^a   Lombardo, Simone ^a   Coppini, Giuseppe ^b   Grassi, Luca ^a   Falchini, Massimo ^a   Mascalchi, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Laplacian of Gaussian; Lung cancer; Lung nodules; Lung nodules characterization; Lung nodules segmentation; Multiscale processing; Scale space

Indexed keywords

LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG NODULES CHARACTERIZATION; MULTISCALE PROCESSING; SCALE-SPACE;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; INSTRUMENT SCALES; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 76249122624     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2009.2032542     Document Type: Article

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