IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1980 · 35 citations · 0 references
MedicineRadiologyComputer VisionDiagnostic ImagingDiagnostic RadiologyChest RadiographyChest RadiologyChest X-ray InterpretationMedical Image AnalysisMedical ImagingRadiographic ImagingChest Radiography ScreeningComputer-aided Chest X-ray DiagnosisComputer-aided DetectionContrastEarly Case DetectionIsolationOpacityScreening Chest Radiography
Discusses an adaptive object growing algorithm for computer-aided recognition of small rounded opacities in coal workers' chest X-rays as a means of early detection of pneumoconiosis. An object of suspected opacity is detected by the algorithm on the basis of maximizing an isolation contrast integral. It is then classified according to two contrast and geometric parameters.