Anniversary Paper: History and status of CAD and quantitative image analysis: The role of Medical Physics and AAPM

ML Giger, HP Chan, J Boone - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The roles of physicists in medical imaging have expanded over the years, from the study of
imaging systems (sources and detectors) and dose to the assessment of image quality and …

Computer-aided diagnosis of lung cancer and pulmonary embolism in computed tomography—a review

HP Chan, L Hadjiiski, C Zhou, B Sahiner - Academic radiology, 2008 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Computer-aided detection (CADe) and computer-aided
diagnosis (CADx) have been important areas of research in the last two decades. Significant …

Comparing algorithms for automated vessel segmentation in computed tomography scans of the lung: the VESSEL12 study

RD Rudyanto, S Kerkstra, EM Van Rikxoort… - Medical image …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The VESSEL12 (VESsel SEgmentation in the Lung) challenge objectively
compares the performance of different algorithms to identify vessels in thoracic computed …

Automated detection and segmentation of pulmonary embolisms on computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) using deep learning but without manual …

J Pu, NS Gezer, S Ren, AO Alpaydin, ER Avci… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a novel computer algorithm to automatically detect and segment pulmonary
embolisms (PEs) on computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). This algorithm …

A new dataset of computed-tomography angiography images for computer-aided detection of pulmonary embolism

M Masoudi, HR Pourreza, M Saadatmand-Tarzjan… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
The lack of publicly available datasets of computed-tomography angiography (CTA) images
for pulmonary embolism (PE) is a problem felt by physicians and researchers. Although a …

Automatic multiscale enhancement and segmentation of pulmonary vessels in CT pulmonary angiography images for CAD applications

C Zhou, HP Chan, B Sahiner, LM Hadjiiski… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The authors are developing a computerized pulmonary vessel segmentation method for a
computer‐aided pulmonary embolism (PE) detection system on computed tomographic …

Automatic detection of pulmonary embolism in CTA images

H Bouma, JJ Sonnemans, A Vilanova… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common life-threatening disorder for which an early
diagnosis is desirable. We propose a new system for the automatic detection of PE in …

A novel method for pulmonary embolism detection in CTA images

H Özkan, O Osman, S Şahin, AF Boz - Computer methods and programs in …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new computer-aided detection (CAD)–based method to detect
pulmonary embolism (PE) in computed tomography angiography images (CTAI). Since lung …

A multistage approach to improve performance of computer-aided detection of pulmonary embolisms depicted on CT images: Preliminary investigation

SC Park, BE Chapman, B Zheng - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study developed a computer-aided detection (CAD) scheme for pulmonary embolism
(PE) detection and investigated several approaches to improve CAD performance. In the …

Computer-aided detection of pulmonary embolism: influence on radiologists' detection performance with respect to vessel segments

M Das, G Mühlenbruch, A Helm, A Bakai… - European …, 2008 - Springer
The purpose was to assess the sensitivity of a CAD software prototype for the detection of
pulmonary embolism in MDCT chest examinations with regard to vessel level and to assess …