Foreign object detection and removal to improve automated analysis of chest radiographs

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Hogeweg, Laurens ^a,b   Sánchez, Clara I ^a,b   Melendez, Jaime ^a,b   Maduskar, Pragnya ^a,b   Story, Alistair ^a,b   Hayward, Andrew ^a,b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

artifact restoration; CAD; chest radiography; detection; foreign objects; pixel classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE TEXTURE; PATHOLOGY; PIXELS; RADIOGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

AUTOMATED IMAGE ANALYSIS; CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE DETECTION; FOREIGN OBJECT; PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS;

OBJECT DETECTION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ARTIFACT; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 84880203142     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4805104     Document Type: Article

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