A multistage discriminative model for tumor and lymph node detection in thoracic images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1061-1075

  Song, Yang ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Kim, Jinman ^a   Feng, David Dagan ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abnormal lymph node; detection; discriminative; lung tumor; multistage; spatial feature

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATIVE; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; MULTISTAGE; SPATIAL FEATURES;

AUTOMATION; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BODY FLUIDS; ERROR DETECTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; ROC CURVE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84860684028     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2185057     Document Type: Article

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