Automated liver lesion characterization using fast kVp switching dual energy computed tomography imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Santamaria Pang, Alberto ^a   Dutta, Sandeep ^b   Makrogiannis, Sokratis ^c   Hara, Amy ^d   Pavlicek, William ^d   Silva, Alvin ^d   Thomsen, Brian ^b   Robertson, Scott ^b   Okerlund, Darin ^b   Langan, David A ^a   Bhotika, Rahul ^a  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Gemstone Spectral Imaging CT; Liver Lesion Classification; Projection Based Material Decomposition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; HARDENING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC LEVITATION VEHICLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTROSCOPY;

CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER LESIONS; MATERIAL DECOMPOSITION; NONLINEAR CLASSIFIERS; OVERLAPPING INTENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPECTRAL IMAGING; SUPERVISED LEARNING METHODS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79953653269     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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