Methodology for automatic detection of lung nodules in computerized tomography images

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-14

  da Silva Sousa, João Rodrigo Ferreira ^a   Silva, Aristófanes Corrěa ^a   de Paiva, Anselmo Cardoso ^a   Nunes, Rodolfo Acatauassú ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Computer tomography (CT); Computer aided detection (CAD); Image processing; Lung nodules; Medical image

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION (CAD); LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PARENCHYMA; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX;

ALGORITHMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950460089     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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