A computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the identification of lung internal nodules in low-dose multi-detector helical Computed Tomography (CT) images was developed in the framework of the MAGIC-5 project. The three modules of our lung CAD system, a segmentation algorithm for lung internal region identification, a multi-scale dot-enhancement filter for nodule candidate selection and a multi-scale neural technique for false positive finding reduction, are described. The results obtained on a dataset of low-dose and thin-slice CT scans are shown in terms of free response receiver operating characteristic (FROC) curves and discussed.
@article{arxiv.0904.2476,
title = {Multi-scale analysis of lung computed tomography images},
author = {I. Gori and F. Bagagli and M. E. Fantacci and A. Preite Martinez and A. Retico and I. De Mitri and S. Donadio and C. Fulcheri and G. Gargano and R. Magro and M. Santoro and S. Stumbo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2476},
year = {2009}
}