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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents a method for detecting suspicious nodules based on successive low-dose helical CT images. The method uses both initial and follow-up images to improve nodule detection performance. The basic idea of the detection is to register nodule images measured at different time and to assess the changes in size, shape, and density of the nodule. Since there are several variations of nodule changes, such as stable, shrinking, expansion in size, disappearance, appearance,, and separation, a coarse-to-fine registration technique was adopted to deal with large nodule deformation. Especially, the fine registration is performed by excluding nodule regions and using nodule surroundings to avoid effects of nodule deformations in alignment task. In a preliminary experiment, the method was applied to ten cases with successive scans. From visual inspection, the corresponding results between initial and follow-up images were acceptable in clinical use. More researches using a large data set will be required. Still, we believe that the method has the potential of detecting suspicious nodules for use in a computer-aide diagnosis system. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2005 | 10.1117/12.595591 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
low-dose helical CT images,screening,lung cancer,computer-aide diagnosis system coarse-to-fine corresponding technique,follow-up | Lung cancer,Computer vision,Visual inspection,Computer-aided diagnosis,Artificial intelligence,Medical diagnostics,Engineering,Computing systems | Conference |
Volume | ISSN | Citations |
5747 | 0277-786X | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 12 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| hironori nakashima | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| takuya yamamoto | 2 | 3 | 1.21 |
| Mitsuru Kubo | 3 | 89 | 22.51 |
| Yoshiki Kawata | 4 | 192 | 54.44 |
| Noboru Niki | 5 | 188 | 66.10 |
| Hironobu Ohmatsu | 6 | 138 | 45.23 |
| Kenji Eguchi | 7 | 129 | 42.78 |
| hiroyuki nishiyama | 8 | 46 | 11.62 |
| Masahiro Kaneko | 9 | 55 | 19.24 |
| masahiko kusumoto | 10 | 46 | 16.28 |
| Ryutaro Kakinuma | 11 | 97 | 24.90 |
| Noriyuki Moriyama | 12 | 148 | 50.47 |