Lung Nodule Detection in Screening Computed Tomography

3 pages, 4 figures; Proceedings of the IEEE NNS and MIC Conference, Oct. 29 - Nov. 4, 2006, San Diego, CaliforniaA computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the identification of pulmonary nodules in low-dose multi-detector helical Computed Tomography (CT) images with 1.25 mm slice thickness is presented. The basic modules of our lung-CAD system, a dot-enhancement filter for nodule candidate selection and a neural classifier for false-positive finding reduction, are described. The results obtained on the collected database of lung CT scans are discussed