Automatic segmentation of lung nodules with growing neural gas and support vector machine.
Stelmo Magalhães Barros NettoAristófanes Corrêa SilvaRodolfo Acatauassu NunesMarcelo GattassPublished in: Comput. Biol. Medicine (2012)
Keyphrases
- automatic segmentation
- growing neural gas
- lung nodules
- ct images
- neural gas
- computer aided diagnosis
- neural network model
- segmentation algorithm
- neural network
- self organizing maps
- accurate segmentation
- x ray images
- topology preserving
- delaunay triangulation
- support vector
- feature vectors
- ct data
- medical images
- computed tomography
- training data
- lung cancer
- benign and malignant
- early detection
- high quality
- training set
- pattern recognition
- image segmentation
- feature selection