Automated detection and classification of pulmonary nodules in 3D thoracic CT images

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3774-3779

  Namin, Sarah Taghavi ^a   Moghaddam, Hamid Abrishami ^a   Jafari, Reza ^a   Esmaeil Zadeh, Mohammad ^b   Gity, Masoumeh ^c  

^a K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

3D CT images; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Fuzzy k nearest neighbor classifier; Lung segmentation; Malignant and benign pulmonary nodule; Shape index

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS (CAD); CT IMAGE; FUZZY K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; LUNG SEGMENTATION; PULMONARY NODULES; SHAPE INDICES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; CYBERNETICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 78751483378     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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