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This paper describes a CAD system to detect a particular type of colon cancer, flat polyps. The identification of suspicious regions is based on two type of analysis executed in succession: a densitometry analysis that researches contrast fluid on polyp surface and a morphological analysis that reduces number of false positives, calculating a curvature index of the surface.
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Bevilacqua, V., Cortellino, M., Mastronardi, G., Scarpa, A., Taurino, D. (2009). Combined Use of Densitometry and Morphological Analysis to Detect Flat Polyps. In: Huang, DS., Jo, KH., Lee, HH., Kang, HJ., Bevilacqua, V. (eds) Emerging Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications. ICIC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5754. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04070-2_103
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