This paper is a reproduction of the research report of the project entitled: Development of computer-aided cancer diagnosis system based on recognition and visualization of multi-modal and multi-dimensional digital images supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Cancer Research, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan in 1999. This project was organized for the purpose of study on computer-aided image diagnosis of cancers, with ten members including four from the medical field and six from the engineering field. Research themes include development of systems for computer-aided diagnosis of lung, breast and stomach cancers by using X-ray images and CT images, applications of virtualized endoscope systems, probabilistic evaluation of diagnostic logic and development of algorithms for 2D and 3D image processing. In the report, a list of papers published by project members is also shown.

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