Computer analysis of computed tomography scans of the lung: a survey

I Sluimer, A Schilham, M Prokop… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current computed tomography (CT) technology allows for near isotropic, submillimeter
resolution acquisition of the complete chest in a single breath hold. These thin-slice chest …

Classifier approaches for liver steatosis using ultrasound images

A Andrade, JS Silva, J Santos, P Belo-Soares - Procedia Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a semi-automatic classification approach to evaluate steatotic liver
tissues using B-scan ultrasound images. Several features have been extracted and used in …

A novel fusion approach for early lung cancer detection using computer aided diagnosis techniques

SL Fernandes, VP Gurupur, H Lin… - Journal of Medical …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) plays an effective and important role in radiology. It
provides second opinion to the radiologists during patient image assessment. In this work …

Algorithm versus physicians variability evaluation in the cardiac chambers extraction

J Silva, JB Santos, D Roxo, P Martins… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Congenital heart diseases are present in eight of every 1000 newborns. The diagnosis of
those pathologies usually depends on the available imaging methods. A correct diagnosis …

A level-set based volumetric CT segmentation technique: A case study with pulmonary air bubbles

JS Silva, BS Santos, A Silva, J Madeira - … 1, 2004, Proceedings, Part II 1, 2004 - Springer
The identification of pulmonary air bubbles plays a significant role for medical diagnosis of
pulmonary pathologies. A method to segment these abnormal pulmonary regions on …

An algorithm for the pulmonary border extraction in PET images

F Nery, JS Silva, NC Ferreira, F Caramelo… - Procedia …, 2012 - Elsevier
Automatic segmentation methods are mandatory for most computer-aided diagnostic
methods, particularly in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), being extremely relevant for …

Automated identification of the lung contours in positron emission tomography

F Nery, JS Silva, NC Ferreira… - Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that
permits to analyze, in three dimensions, the physiological processes in vivo. One of the …

Skin characterization by ultrasound techniques

S Barbosa, JB Santos, M Santos… - 2013 8th Iberian …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasounds have an increasingly important role in the diagnosis and monitoring of skin,
since the used techniques are non-invasive and non-ionizing, and also provide internal …

Evaluation of the Inter-observer Cardiac Chamber Contour Extraction versus a Level Set Algorithm

D Roxo, JS Silva, JB Santos, P Martins… - … , Portugal, October 5-7 …, 2011 - Springer
Segmentation of echocardiography images presents a great challenge because these
images contain strong speckle noise and artifacts. Besides, most ultrasound segmentation …

Cardiac Chamber Contour Extraction: Performance Evaluation of an Algorithm and Physicians

D Roxo, JS Silva, JB Santos, P Martins… - … and Technologies for …, 2013 - igi-global.com
Segmentation of echocardiography images presents a great challenge since such images
contain strong speckle noise and artifacts. Most ultrasound segmentation methods are semi …