Mediastinal lymph node detection and station mapping on chest CT using spatial priors and random forest

Medical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 4362-4374

  Liu, Jiamin ^a   Hoffman, Joanne ^a   Zhao, Jocelyn ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Lu, Le ^a   Kim, Lauren ^a   Turkbey, Evrim B ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

lymph node detection; lymph node station labeling; multiatlas label fusion; random forest classifier; spatial prior

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BODY FLUIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHEST CT; LABEL FUSIONS; LABELINGS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DETECTIONS; LYMPH NODE STATION LABELING; MEDIASTINAL LYMPH NODES; MULTIATLAS LABEL FUSION; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SPATIAL PRIORS;

MAPPING;

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; ISOTOPE LABELING; LUNG STRUCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SPINE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEA; VOLUME; BOOK; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME FACTOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATLASES AS TOPIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84976358199     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: 24734209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4954009     Document Type: Article

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