A new validation approach for the growth rate measurement using elastic phantoms generated by state-of-the-art microfluidics technology

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 4381-4384

  El Baz, A ^a   Sethu, P ^a   Gimel'farb, G ^b   Khalifa, F ^a   Elnakib, A ^a   Falk, R ^c   El Ghar, M 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

Elastic phantoms; Growth rate; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE MODELS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REGISTRATION; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELASTIC PHANTOMS; IMAGE-BASED; LOCAL ALIGNMENT; LOW DOSE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; LUNG PHANTOM; MICROFLUIDICS TECHNOLOGY; NON-RIGID; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; PULMONARY NODULES; RATE MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE DEFORMATION; RESEARCH GOALS; TRANSPARENT POLYMER; VALIDATION APPROACH;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROFLUIDICS; MONITORING; SILICONES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 78651087366     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5652318     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures, 2006.
2. D. M. Libby, J. P. Smith, N. K. Altorki, M. W. Pasmantier, et al., "Managing the small pulmonary nodule discovered by CT," Chest, vol. 125, pp. 1522-1530, 2004.
3. M. L. Giger, K. T. Bae, and H. MacMahon, "Computerized detection of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images," Invest. Radiol., vol. 29, pp. 459-465, 1994.
4. M. F. McNitt-Gray, E. M. Hart, N. Wyckoff, J. W. Sayre, et al., "A pattern classification approach to characterizing solitary pulmonary nodules imaged on high resolution CT: Preliminary results," Med. Phys., vol. 26, pp. 880-888, 1999.
5. A. P. Reeves, A. Chan, D. F. Yankelevitz, C. I. Henschke, et al., "On Measuring the change in size of pulmonary nodules," IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, vol. 25, pp. 435-449, 2006.
6. Y. Kawata, N. Niki, H. Ohmatsu, M. Kusumoto, et al., "Analysis of evolving processes in pulmonary nodules using a sequence of three-dimensional thoracic images," Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (Image Process., Med. Imaging 1997), vol. 4322, pp. 1890-1901, 2001. (Pubitemid 32839788)
7. S. G. Jennings, H. T. Winer-Muram, M. Tann, J. Ying, et al., "Distribution of stage I lung cancer growth rates determined with serial volumetric CT measurements," Radiol., vol. 241, 2006.
8. A. Marchiano, E. Calabro, E. Civelli, G. D. Tolla, et al., "Pulmonary nodules: Volume repeatability at multidetector CT lung cancer screening," Radiol., vol. 251, pp. 919-925, 2009.
9. J. Goo, T. Tongdee, R. Tongdee, K. Yeo, et al., "Volumetric measurement of synthetic lung nodules with multi-detector row CT: Effect of various image reconstruction parameters and segmentation thresholds on measurement accuracy," Radiol., vol. 235, pp. 850-856, 2005.
10. J. Ko, H. Rusinek, E. Jacobs, J. Babb, et al., "Small pulmonary nodules: Volume measurement at chest CT-phantom study," Radiol., vol. 235, pp. 864-870, 2003.
11. H. Jiang and K. Kelly, "Theoretical prediction of lung nodule measurement accuracy under different acquisition and reconstruction conditions," Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. (Med. Imaging 2004: Physiol. Funct. Struct. Med. Images), pp. 406-412, 2004.
12. M. A. Gavrielides, L.M. Kinnard, K. J.Myers, N. Petrick, "Noncalcified lung nodules: Volumetric assessment with thoracic CT," Radiol., vol. 251, pp. 26-37, 2009.
13. A. El-Baz, G. Gimel'farb, R. Falk, M. Abou El-Ghar, S. Rainey, D. Heredia, and T. Shaffer, "Toward Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer," Proc. of International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'09), London, UK, September 20-24, 2009, pp. 682-689.
14. A. El-Baz and G. Gimel'farb, "EMBased Approximation of Empirical Distributions with Linear Combinations of Discrete Gaussians," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Process. (ICIP'07), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 16-19, 2007, vol. 4IV, pp. 373-376.
15. J. Sethian, "Fast Marching Level Set Method for Monotonically Advancing Fronts," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, vol. 93, pp. 1591-1595, 1996.