ABSTRACT
A computer-aided detection procedure does not provide a medical diagnosis. Rather, the computerized system is developed to detect signs of pathology in medical images by extracting features that are highly correlated with the type and the characteristics of the abnormality or the disease under investigation. If a specific area in a radiological image meets the requirements, the computerized scheme identifies it, and the radiologist can review it to improve the accuracy of the detection procedure. On the other hand, computer-aided diagnosis schemes, based on the same or additional features, characterize the identified region according to its pathology.
