Computer-aided abdominal lymph node detection using contrast-enhanced CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7963, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Liu, Jiamin ^a   Hua, Jeremy ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   White, Jacob M ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D blob detector; Hessian matrix; lymph node detection; object scale

Indexed keywords

3D BLOB DETECTOR; ABDOMINAL LYMPH NODES; BLOB DETECTION; BODY PARTS; CLINICAL WORKFLOW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT; CT IMAGE; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; ERROR PRONES; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; HESSIAN ANALYSIS; HESSIAN MATRICES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MULTISCALES; NODE DETECTION; OBJECT SCALE; PRIMARY MODALITY; SEARCH REGION;

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DETECTORS; ERROR DETECTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79955774599     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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