Computer-aided colorectal tumor classification in NBI endoscopy: Using local features

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 78-100

  Tamaki, Toru ^a   Yoshimuta, Junki ^a   Kawakami, Misato ^a   Raytchev, Bisser ^a   Kaneda, Kazufumi ^a   Yoshida, Shigeto ^b   Takemura, Yoshito ^a   Onji, Keiichi ^a   Miyaki, Rie ^a   Tanaka, Shinji ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bag of visual words; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer; Nbi; Pit pattern

Indexed keywords

BAG-OF-VISUAL-WORDS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; NBI; PIT-PATTERN;

DISEASES; EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ENDOSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SCREENING; CHROMOENDOSCOPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROVASCULATURE; NARROW BAND IMAGING; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; NARROW BAND IMAGING;

EID: 84872597764     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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