Automatic Detection of Tuberculosis in Chest Radiographs Using a Combination of Textural, Focal, and Shape Abnormality Analysis

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2429-2442

  Hogeweg, Laurens ^a   Sánchez, Clara I ^a   Maduskar, Pragnya ^a   Philipsen, Rick ^a   Story, Alistair ^b   Dawson, Rodney ^c   Theron, Grant ^c,d   Dheda, Keertan ^c,d   Peters Bax, Liesbeth ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Chest radiography; computer aided detection; ensemble learning; tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

CHEST RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS; TUBERCULOSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

AFRICA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLAVICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PLEURA CAVITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; ROC CURVE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84949566847     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2405761     Document Type: Article

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