Computer-aided detection of renal calculi from noncontrast CT images using TV-flow and MSER features

Medical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 144-153

  Liu, Jianfei ^a   Wang, Shijun ^a   Turkbey, Evrim B ^a   Linguraru, Marius George ^b,c   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

computer aided detection; kidney stone; maximally stable extremal regions; renal calculi; total variation flow

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ANISOTROPIC DIFFUSION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; CT IMAGE; KIDNEY STONE; MAXIMALLY STABLE EXTREMAL REGIONS; REGION FEATURE; RENAL CALCULI; THRESHOLDING; TOTAL VARIATION FLOW;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84919771382     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4903056     Document Type: Article

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