Automated image-based colon cleansing for laxative-free CT colonography computer-aided polyp detection

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 6633-6642

  George Linguraru, Marius ^a,b   Panjwani, Neil ^a   G Fletcher, Joel ^c   M Summer, Ronald ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

cleansing; colon cancer; CTC; heterogeneous stool; laxative free; polyp detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TEXTURES;

CLEANSING; COLON CANCER; HETEROGENEOUS STOOL; LAXATIVE-FREE; POLYP DETECTION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 82755163823     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3662918     Document Type: Article

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