Automated extraction of lymph nodes from 3-D abdominal CT images using 3-D minimum directional difference filter

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

Volumn 4792 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 336-343

  Kitasaka, Takayuki ^a   Tsujimura, Yukihiro ^a   Nakamura, Yoshihiko ^a   Mori, Kensaku ^a   Suenaga, Yasuhito ^a   Ito, Masaaki ^b   Nawano, Shigeru ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; SURGERY;

AUTOMATED EXTRACTION; LYMPH NODES; METASTASIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LYMPH NODE; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPH NODES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79551687708     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75759-7_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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