A new method for spherical object detection and its application to computer aided detection of pulmonary nodules in CT images

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4791 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 842-849

  Zhang, Xiangwei ^a   Stockel, Jonathan ^b   Wolf, Matthias ^b   Cathier, Pascal ^b   McLennan, Geoffrey ^a   Hoffman, Eric A ^a   Sonka, Milan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PULMONARY DISEASES;

COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; PULMONARY NODULES; VOXEL IMAGES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79551682761     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75757-3_102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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