A novel segmentation approach for improving diagnostic accuracy of CAD systems for detecting lung cancer from chest computed tomography images.
Darmanayagam Shiloah ElizabethHarichandran Khanna NehemiahCyril Sunil Retmin RajArputharaj KannanPublished in: ACM J. Data Inf. Qual. (2012)
Keyphrases
- lung cancer
- computed tomography images
- lung nodules
- cad systems
- automatic segmentation
- pulmonary nodules
- lymph nodes
- computer aided detection
- pet ct
- computer aided diagnosis
- early detection
- computer aided
- cancer diagnosis
- lung cancer patients
- nodule detection
- medical images
- survival prediction
- x ray images
- computer aided design
- breast cancer
- classification accuracy
- risk factors
- segmentation algorithm
- ct images
- medical imaging
- image segmentation
- computer aided diagnostic
- cancer cells
- anatomical structures
- expert systems
- automatic detection
- remote sensing
- x ray
- image analysis
- ground glass opacity