Support system for lung cancer screening by CT

Hao Jiang; Nobuaki Masuto; Osamu Nishimura; Shinji Yamamoto; Shun-ichi Iisaku; Mitsuomi Matsumoto; Yukio Tateno; Takeshi Iinuma; Tohru Matsumoto

doi:10.1117/12.383063

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18 April 2000 Support system for lung cancer screening by CT

Hao Jiang, Nobuaki Masuto, Osamu Nishimura, Shinji Yamamoto, Shun-ichi Iisaku, Mitsuomi Matsumoto, Yukio Tateno, Takeshi Iinuma, Tohru Matsumoto

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Proceedings Volume 3976, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Display and Visualization; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383063
Event: Medical Imaging 2000, 2000, San Diego, CA, United States

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This paper presents a system for CAD of lung cancer screening by CT. The system consists of tow parts, automatic processing part and image based diagnosis part. The automatic processing part is to automatically detect the candidate regions of lung cancer based on the methods we proposed, and the image based diagnosis part is mainly used for doctor to make the mass screening. The result obtained by automatic processing part are provided to image based diagnosis pat as support information for increasing the performance of doctor screening.

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Hao Jiang, Nobuaki Masuto, Osamu Nishimura, Shinji Yamamoto, Shun-ichi Iisaku, Mitsuomi Matsumoto, Yukio Tateno, Takeshi Iinuma, and Tohru Matsumoto "Support system for lung cancer screening by CT", Proc. SPIE 3976, Medical Imaging 2000: Image Display and Visualization, (18 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.383063

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