Temporal subtraction of "virtual dual-energy" chest radiographs for improved conspicuity of growing cancers and other pathologic changes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7963, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Armato III, Samuel G ^a   Engelmann, Roger ^a   Caligiuri, Philip ^b   MacMahon, Heber ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

chest radiographs; digital radiography; enhanced radiography; pathologic changes; rib artifacts; rib suppression; temporal subtraction; virtual dual energy radiography

Indexed keywords

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DUAL-ENERGY RADIOGRAPHY; ENHANCED RADIOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGIC CHANGES; RIB ARTIFACTS; RIB SUPPRESSION; TEMPORAL SUBTRACTION;

EDGE DETECTION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY; RATING; TISSUE; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 79955782584     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.878662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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