Automatic detection and segmentation of abdominopelvic lymph nodes on computed tomography scans

Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1455-1458

  Liu, Jiamin ^a   Feng, Chin Hsiang ^a   Hua, Jeremy ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   White, Jacob M ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a National Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

Hessian matrix; lymph node detection; object scale

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; CURVE EVOLUTION; FALSE POSITIVE; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; HESSIAN ANALYSIS; HESSIAN MATRICES; HIGH SENSITIVITY; LYMPH NODE; OBJECT SCALE; PELVIC GIRDLE; SEARCH REGION;

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BODY FLUIDS;

EID: 84864853523     PISSN: 19457928     EISSN: 19458452     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235845     Document Type: Conference Paper

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