Bag-of-frequencies: A descriptor of pulmonary nodules in computed tomography images

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 962-973

  Ciompi, Francesco ^a   Jacobs, Colin ^a,b   Scholten, Ernst Th ^a   Wille, Mathilde M W ^c   De Jong, Pim A ^d   Prokop, Mathias ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chest computed tomography (CT); computer aided detection; frequency analysis; nodule characterization; pulmonary nodules; three dimensional (3 D) descriptor

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MORPHOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHEST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT); COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; DESCRIPTORS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PULMONARY NODULES;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LUNG NODULE; MORPHOLOGY; SCREENING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84926435768     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2014.2371821     Document Type: Article

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