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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Image Anal. 2007 Mar 30;11(3):315–324. doi: 10.1016/j.media.2007.03.004

Table 1. First five weak classifiers {h1(x)h5(x)} selected for structures, with the feature and scale (or max-min over all scales), weak classifier condition, and alpha value. Mag(κ) refers to κ12+κ22+κ32.

Airway Classifier Fissure Classifier Nodule Classifier Vessel Classifier

hi(x) αi hi(x) αi hi(x) αi hi(x) αi
κ2 (max) > 28.4 2.71 mag(κ) (max) ≤ 32.3 1.65 κ3 (max) ≤ −24.7 1.86 HU > −235 2.02
HU ≤ −949 1.54 |κ1|−|κ2|/|κ1|+|κ2| (3.5 mm) > 0.90 0.84 HU > −746 1.16 κ3 (3.5 mm) > 5.12 1.18
κ1 (max) > 30.5 1.16 mag(κ) (max) ≤ 70.9 0.79 κ3 (max) > 19.2 0.75 κ1 (2.4 mm) ≤ −26.6 0.87
κ2 (max) ≤ 28.3 0.61 κ1 (1.0 mm) ≤ −11.5 0.93 κ2 (1.0 mm) ≤ −10.1 0.53 |κ3|/sqrt(|κ1κ2|) (max) ≤ 0.29 0.85
κ2 (1.0 mm) > 57.3 0.75 κ1 (max) > 31.1 0.66 mag(κ) (2.4 mm) ≤ 77.3 0.67 κ1 (max) ≤ 32.2 0.58