Local contralateral subtraction based on bilateral symmetry of lung for reduction of false positives in computerized detection of pulmonary nodules.
Hiroyuki YoshidaPublished in: IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. (2004)
Keyphrases
- false positives
- pulmonary nodules
- computer aided
- lung cancer
- false negative
- ct images
- detection rate
- bilateral symmetry
- thoracic ct images
- false positive rate
- computer aided detection
- ct scans
- differential diagnosis
- nodule detection
- false alarms
- computer aided diagnosis
- number of false positives
- lung parenchyma
- computed tomography
- line drawings
- breast cancer
- medical images
- medical domain
- lung nodules
- medical image processing
- remote sensing
- x ray
- object detection
- image data
- lung disease
- image analysis
- multiscale
- ground glass opacity
- image segmentation