Quantitative evaluation of spatial distribution of line structure in the lung for computer-aided diagnosis of pulmonary nodules.
Hidenori ShikataHiroko KitaokaYoshinobu SatoTakeshi JohkohHironobu NakamuraShinichi TamuraPublished in: Systems and Computers in Japan (2003)
Keyphrases
- pulmonary nodules
- computer aided diagnosis
- quantitative evaluation
- spatial distribution
- computer aided
- thoracic ct images
- ct images
- ct scans
- differential diagnosis
- medical images
- lung cancer
- image analysis
- breast cancer
- ground truth
- spatial information
- medical imaging
- cad systems
- high resolution computed tomography
- lung nodules
- benign and malignant
- lung parenchyma
- three dimensional
- medical domain
- medical image processing
- computed tomography
- single photon emission computed tomography
- receiver operating characteristic
- quality assessment
- image processing
- data mining
- neural network