Computer-aided lymph node detection in abdominal CT images

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7624, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liu, Jiamin ^a   White, Jacob M ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

3D blob detector; Hessian matrix; Lymph node detection; object scale

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

BLOB DETECTORS; CONTRAST-ENHANCED; DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FALSE-POSITIVE REDUCTION; HESSIAN MATRICES; LYMPH NODE DETECTIONS; OBJECT SCALE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84956861720     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.844406     Document Type: Conference Paper

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