Computer-aided detection of hepatocellular carcinoma in multiphase contrast-enhanced hepatic CT: A preliminary study

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7963, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xu, Jian Wu ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^b   Oto, Aytekin ^a   Baron, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

computer aided detection; contrast enhanced hepatic CT; false positive reduction; feature selection; hepatocellular carcinoma; liver cancer; support vector machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CONTRAST-ENHANCED HEPATIC CT; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA; LIVER CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEARS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TUMORS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79955755534     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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