A new approach for automatic analysis of 3D low dose ct images for accurate monitoring the detected lung nodules

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  El Baz, Ayman ^a   Gimel'farb, Georgy ^b   Falk, Robert ^c   El Ghar, Mohamed Abo ^d  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; GRADIENT METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; APPEARANCE MODELING; AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; GIBBS ENERGY FUNCTIONS; LOCAL DEFORMATIONS; MARKOV-GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; PAIRWISE INTERACTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77957954202     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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