COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM INCORPORATING SHAPE ANALYSIS FOR DIAGNOSING MALIGNANT LUNG NODULES

摘要

A computer aided diagnostic system and automated method diagnose lung cancer through modeling and analyzing the shape of pulmonary nodules. A model used in such analysis describes the shape of pulmonary nodules in terms of spherical harmonics required to delineate a unit sphere corresponding to the pulmonary nodule to a model of the pulmonary nodule.