Classification of Pulmonary Nodules by Using Hybrid Features

Joint Authors

Tartar, Ahmet
Akan, Aydin
Kilic, Niyazi

Source

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Issue

Vol. 2013, Issue 2013 (31 Dec. 2013), pp.1-11, 11 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2013-06-25

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

11

Main Subjects

Medicine

Abstract EN

Early detection of pulmonary nodules is extremely important for the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.

In this study, a new classification approach for pulmonary nodules from CT imagery is presented by using hybrid features.

Four different methods are introduced for the proposed system.

The overall detection performance is evaluated using various classifiers.

The results are compared to similar techniques in the literature by using standard measures.

The proposed approach with the hybrid features results in 90.7% classification accuracy (89.6% sensitivity and 87.5% specificity).

American Psychological Association (APA)

Tartar, Ahmet& Kilic, Niyazi& Akan, Aydin. 2013. Classification of Pulmonary Nodules by Using Hybrid Features. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Tartar, Ahmet…[et al.]. Classification of Pulmonary Nodules by Using Hybrid Features. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-11.
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American Medical Association (AMA)

Tartar, Ahmet& Kilic, Niyazi& Akan, Aydin. Classification of Pulmonary Nodules by Using Hybrid Features. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-449602

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-449602