Assessment of texture measures susceptibility to noise in conventional and contrast enhanced computed tomography lung tumour images

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 494-503

  Al Kadi, Omar Sultan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contrast enhanced CT; CT image noise; Feature extraction; Lung tumour; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; CT IMAGE; CT IMAGE NOISE; DATA SETS; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; GABOR FILTER; GAUSSIAN MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; GAUSSIANS; LUNG TUMOURS; MEDICAL IMAGES; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; REGION OF INTEREST; RUN LENGTH; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE MEASUREMENT; WAVELET PACKETS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER CRIME; DIAGNOSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; TEXTURES; TUMORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954386185     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.12.011     Document Type: Article

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