Title :
Computerized scheme for the detection of pulmonary nodules
Author :
Giger, Maryellen Lissak
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Radiol., Chicago Univ., IL, USA
Abstract :
A computerized scheme to detect locations of lung nodules in digital chest images is discussed. The method is based on a difference-image approach and various feature-extraction techniques, including a growth test, a slope test and a profile test. The aim of the detection scheme is to direct the radiologist´s attention to locations in an image that may contain a pulmonary nodule. Final decisions are made by the radiologist. Results of a preliminary observer study suggest that such a computer aid can improve the detection performance of radiologists
Keywords :
computerised picture processing; diagnostic radiography; lung; medical diagnostic computing; computer aid; computerized scheme; diagnostic techniques; difference-image approach; digital chest images; feature-extraction techniques; growth test; lung nodules; profile test; pulmonary nodules detection; slope test; Application software; Design methodology; Image databases; Lungs; Optical computing; Optical films; Optical filters; Radiology; Shape measurement; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.95905
