10th International Workshop
on Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Chairman: Kunio Doi, PhD (USA)
Co-chair: Ulrich Bick, MD (D)
08:30 Special Session on Thoracic CAD – TCAD
Friday, June 27, 2008; Room Kursaal
Session Chairs:
Matthew T. Freedman, MD, MBA (USA), Junji Shiraishi, PhD (USA)
08:30 Wavelet-based pulmonary nodules features characterization and classification on Computed Tomography (CT) scans
Invited Speakers: M. Freedman, T. Osicka, F. Ahmed, Georgetown Univ. Medical Center, Washington, DC (USA)
09:00 The characteristic scale as a consistent indicator of lung nodule size in CT imaging
S. Diciotti, S. Lombardo, G. Coppini, L. Grassi, L. Petrolo, G. Picozzi, M. Falchini, M. Mascalchi, Univ. of Florence (I)
09:15 False positive reduction in computer-aided detection of lung nodules at MDCT using a new measure of roundness of binary objects
S. Matsumoto, Y. Ohno, D. Takenaka, K. Sugimura, Kobe Univ. Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, H. Yamagata, Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., Otawara (J)
09:30 An automated method for lung nodule detection
J. Alirezaie, O. Talakoub, Ryerson Univ., P. Babyn, The Hosp. for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario (CDN)
09:45 Computerized detection of pulmonary nodules based on dual classifiers for juxta-pleural and non-pleural nodules
Y. Nomura, Y. Masutani, M. Nemoto, E. Maeda, H. Itoh, S. Hanaoka, T. Yoshikawa, N. Hayashi, N. Yoshioka,
K. Ohtomo, The Univ. of Tokyo Hosp. (J)
10:00 Break