Lung Imaging and Computer Aided Diagnosis

There is an urgent need for new technology to diagnose small, malignant lung nodules early as well as large nodules located away from large diameter airways since current technology, i.e. needle biopsy and bronchoscopy, fail to diagnose those cases. This book brings together researchers in pulmonary image analysis and discuss the state of the art image processing techniques for detecting and diagnosing lung cancer at an early stage. This book addresses variables and discrepancies in a way that will make evaluating small lung masses more consistent, and allow for more accurate measurement of growth rates, shape and appearance analysis of the detected lung nodules.