Early detection of pulmonary vessel nodule in low dose CT image using local adaptive thresholding / Sufia Mohd Hizam, Noor Shafini Mohamad

• Main Authors: Mohd Hizam, Sufia, Mohamad, Noor Shafini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA 2020
• Subjects: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system; Examination. Diagnosis. Including radiography
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64812/1/64812.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/64812/; http://healthscopefsk.com/

Small lung nodules are very subtle in the medical images, and less than 30% of them are connected to the pulmonary vessels. Most of the time, the findings of this disease are not optimal at the early stages. These small lung nodules have similar HU values as pulmonary vessels, therefore, making it a...