Overlapping node discovery for improving classification of lung nodules

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5461-5464

  Zhang, Fan ^a   Cai, Weidong ^a   Song, Yang ^a   Lee, Min Zhao ^a   Shan, Shimin ^b   Dagan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Classification; CPMw; Lung nodules; Overlap; SVM

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CPMW; LUNG CANCER DIAGNOSIS; LUNG NODULE; OVERLAP; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; SVM;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; SOLVENTS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG NODULE; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; PROBABILITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84886566668     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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