Potential usefulness of curvature based description for differential diagnosis of pulmonary nodules

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1679, Issue , 1999, Pages 386-394

  Kawata, Y ^a   Niki, N ^a   Ohmatsu, H ^b   Kusumoto, M ^c   Kakinuma, R ^b   Mori, K ^d   Eguchi, K ^e   Kaneko, M ^c   Moriyama, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOCHIGI CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION SHIKOKU CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LEAVE ONE OUT METHODS; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; THIN-SECTION CT IMAGE; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84957090034     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10704282_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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