Suppression of translucent elongated structures: Applications in chest radiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2099-2113

  Hogeweg, Laurens ^a   Sanchez, Clara I ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artifact removal; chest radiography; suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT REMOVAL; CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; ELONGATED STRUCTURES; LOCAL INFORMATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SUBSPACE FILTERING; SUPPRESSION;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; CATHETERS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTS; VISIBILITY;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CATHETER; CLAVICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RIB; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; VISIBILITY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; CATHETERS; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RIBS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887850073     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2013.2274212     Document Type: Article

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