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Artificial Life Models in Lung CTs

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With the present paper we introduce a new Computer Assisted Detection method for Lung Cancer in CT images. The algorithm is based on several sub-modules: 3D Region Growing, Active Contour And Shape Models, Centre of Maximal Balls, but the core of our approach are Biological Models of ants known as Artificial Life models. In the first step of the algorithm images undergo a 3D region growing procedure for identifying the ribs cage; then Active Contour Models are used in order to build a confined area for the incoming ants that are deployed to make clean and accurate reconstruction of the bronchial and vascular tree, which is removed from the image just before checking for nodules.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Associatione Sviluppo Piemonte, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Universita’ degli Studi di Torino,  

    Sorin Cristian Cheran

  2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Universita’ degli Studi di Bari,  

    Gianfranco Gargano

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra,  

    Ernesto Costa

  5. Dept. LCC, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Carlos Cotta

  6. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  7. INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France, Parc Orsay Université, 4, rue Jacques Monod, 91893, ORSAY Cedex, France

    Evelyne Lutton

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Jason H. Moore

  10. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

  13. Kyushu University, Japan

    Hideyuki Takagi

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Cheran, S.C., Gargano, G. (2006). Artificial Life Models in Lung CTs. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11732242_47

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