Computer-aided detection of lung nodules via 3D fast radial transform, scale space representation, and Zernike MIP classification

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1962-1971

  Riccardi, Alessandro ^a   Petkov, Todor Sergueev ^a   Ferri, Gianluca ^a   Masotti, Matteo ^a   Campanini, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

computer aided detection; fast radial; lung nodule; maximum intensity projection; scale space; support vector machine; Zernike moments

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTOR SPACES;

COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; FAST RADIAL; LUNG NODULE; MAXIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION; SCALE SPACES; ZERNIKE MOMENTS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 79953648703     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3560427     Document Type: Article

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