Automated nodule location and size estimation using a multi-scale laplacian of Gaussian filtering approach

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1028-1031

  Jirapatnakul, Artit C ^a   Fotin, Sergei V ^a   Reeves, Anthony P ^a   Biancardi, Alberto M ^a   Yankelevitz, David F ^b   Henschke, Claudia I ^b  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laplacian of Gaussian; Pulmonary nodule; Size estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN; LAPLACIAN OF GAUSSIAN FILTERING; NODULE SEGMENTATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PULMONARY NODULES; SIZE ESTIMATION; TEMPLATE BASED METHODS; TEMPLATE-BASED METHOD;

LOCATION;

EID: 77950976433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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