Automated lymph node detection and classification on breast and prostate cancer SPECT-CT images

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3431-3434

  Papp, Laszlo ^a   Zsoter, Norbert ^a   Loh, Charlotte ^b   Ole, Baeumer ^b   Egeler, Bernhard ^b   Garai, Ildiko ^c   Luetzen, Ulf ^b  

^a Mediso Medical Imaging Systems Ltd   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CT DATA; EARLY DETECTION; EFFECTIVE TOOL; HOT SPOT; KEY FACTORS; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL DATA; PROSTATE CANCERS; SOLUTION-PROCESSED;

BODY FLUIDS; COMMUNICATION; DISEASES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENT TREATMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84862594427     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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