PET-CT based automated lung nodule detection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4974-4977

  Zsoter, Norbert ^a   Bandi, Peter ^a   Szabo, Gergely ^a   Toth, Zoltan ^b   Bundschuh, Ralph A ^c   Dinges, Julia ^d   Papp, Laszlo ^a  

^a Mediso Medical Imaging Systems Ltd   (Hungary)

^b SCANOMED LTD   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED LUNG NODULE DETECTION; AUTOMATIC METHOD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CT IMAGE; LUNG NODULE; LUNG SEGMENTATION; MEAN RATIO; POST PROCESSING; SIZE CONSTRAINT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870779859     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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