Rib suppression in chest radiographs to improve classification of textural abnormalities

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hogeweg, Laurens E ^a   Mol, Christian ^a   De Jong, Pim A ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS(CAD); GAUSSIAN DERIVATIVES; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; PIXEL INTENSITIES; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SUPERVISED LEARNING APPROACHES;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84893268603     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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