Computer-aided Detection of Endobronchial Valves Using Volumetric CT

A New Computer-Aided Detection System for Pulmonary Nodule in CT Scan Images of Cancerous Patients

Introduction: In the lung cancers, a computer-aided detection system that is capable of detecting very small glands in high volume of CT images is very useful.This study provided a novelsystem for detection of pulmonary nodules in CT image. Methods: In a case-control study, CT scans of the chest of 20 patients referred to Yazd Social Security Hospital were examined. In the two-dimensional and ...

Computer Aided Lytic Bone Metastasis Detection Using Regular CT Images

This paper presents a computer aided detection system to find lytic bone metastases in the spine. The CAD system is designed to run on routine chest and/or abdominal CT exams (5mm slice thickness) obtained during a patient’s evaluation for other indications. The system can therefore serve as a background procedure to detect bone metastases. The spine is first automatically extracted based on ad...

Computer Aided Detection of Polyps in CT Colonography

PURPOSE A massive-training artificial neural network (MTANN) has been developed for the reduction of false positives (FPs) in computer-aided detection (CADe) of polyps in CT colonography (CTC). A major limitation of the MTANN is the long training time. To address this issue, the authors investigated the feasibility of two state-of-the-art regression models, namely, support vector regression (SV...

Computer Aided Detection of Potential Colorectal Neoplasia at CT Colonography

Polyp Segmentation Method for CT Colonography Computer Aided Detection

We have developed a new method employing the Canny edge detector and Radon transformation to segment images of polyp candidates for CT colonography (CTC) computer aided polyp detection and obtain features useful for distinguishing true polyps from false positive detections. The technique is applied to two-dimensional subimages of polyp candidates selected using various 3-D shape and curvature c...