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In this paper, a novel and fast method to detect liver nodules automatically based on the original image, which avoids problems raised by liver segmentation was proposed. Algorithms were applied to determine the candidate regions which may contain nodules and the gray value of a nodule is typically considered to be a local extremum, but not necessarily a maximum, as it differs in signal from the surrounding...