A multistage approach to improve performance of computer-aided detection of pulmonary embolisms depicted on CT Images: Preliminary investigation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1519-1527

  Park, Sang Cheol ^a,b   Chapman, Brian E ^a   Zheng, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computer aided detection (CAD); false positive (FP) reduction; feature selection; free response receiver operating characteristics (FROC) analysis; genetic algorithm (GA); pulmonary embolism; tobogganing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; FALSE-POSITIVE (FP) REDUCTION; FEATURE SELECTION; FREE-RESPONSE RECEIVERS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOBOGGANING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; D REGION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MAMMOGRAPHY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PULMONARY DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79956358945     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2063702     Document Type: Article

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