Effect of grayscale resolution on the performance of lung nodule detection on a softcopy display.
W. James SehnertBrian W. KeelanKarin TöpferPublished in: Medical Imaging: Image-Guided Procedures (2005)
Keyphrases
- gray scale
- nodule detection
- lung nodules
- low dose
- pulmonary nodules
- vessel enhancement
- binary images
- gray level
- color images
- grayscale images
- ct images
- mathematical morphology
- cad systems
- x ray
- computed tomography
- automatic detection
- contrast enhancement
- computer aided diagnosis
- computer aided
- medical image processing
- morphological operations
- ct scans
- x ray images
- high resolution
- lung cancer
- halftone images
- partial volume
- three dimensional
- preprocessing step
- structuring elements
- vessel segmentation
- medical images