Appearance-based diagnostic system for early assessment of malignant lung nodules

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 533-536

  El Baz, Ayman ^a   Gimel'Farb, Georgy ^b   Abou El Ghar, Mohamed ^c   Falk, Robert ^d  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

2D MGRF; CT; Lung nodules

Indexed keywords

2D MGRF; APPEARANCE BASED; CT; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEMS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HOUNSFIELD VALUES; LUNG NODULE; MARKOV-GIBBS RANDOM FIELDS; SECOND ORDERS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 84875869942     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2012.6466914     Document Type: Conference Paper

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