Abstract：
:Computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) schemes have been developed to assist radiologists in the early detection of lung cancer in radiographs and computed tomography (CT) images. In order to improve sensitivity for nodule detection, many researchers have employed a filter as a preprocessing step for enhancement of nodules. However, these filters enhance not only nodules, but also other anatomic structures such as ribs, blood vessels, and airway walls. Therefore, nodules are often detected together with a large number of false positives caused by these normal anatomic structures. In this study, we developed three selective enhancement filters for dot, line, and plane which can simultaneously enhance objects of a specific shape (for example, dot-like nodules) and suppress objects of other shapes (for example, line-like vessels). Therefore, as preprocessing steps, these filters would be useful for improving the sensitivity of nodule detection and for reducing the number of false positives. We applied our enhancement filters to synthesized images to demonstrate that they can selectively enhance a specific shape and suppress other shapes. We also applied our enhancement filters to real two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) CT images to show their effectiveness in the enhancement of specific objects in real medical images. We believe that the three enhancement filters developed in this study would be useful in the computerized detection of cancer in 2D and 3D medical images.
journal_name
Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Li Q,Sone S,Doi Kdoi
10.1118/1.1581411subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-08-01 00:00:00pages
2040-51issue
8eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
30pub_type
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