Automated detection of lung tumors in PET/CT images using active contour filter

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 9414, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Teramoto, Atsushi ^a   Adachi, Hayato ^a   Tsujimoto, Masakazu ^a   Fujita, Hiroshi ^b   Takahashi, Katsuaki ^c   Yamamuro, Osamu ^c   Tamaki, Tsuneo ^c   Nishio, Masami ^d   Kobayashi, Toshiki ^d  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c East Nagoya Imaging Diagnosis Center   (Japan)

^d Nagoya Radiological Diagnosis Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active contour; Computer aided detection (CAD); Detection; Lung tumor; PET CT

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DEFORMATION; DIAGNOSIS; ERROR DETECTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PIXELS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TUMORS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; AUTOMATED DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; LOW CONTRAST LESIONS; LUNG TUMOR; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84948799417     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2081680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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