Influence of Visual Distractors on Detectability of Liver Nodules on Contrast-enhanced Spiral Computed Tomography Scans

Academic Radiology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 335-342

  Wester, Christine ^a,b   Judy, Philip F ^a   Polger, Marla ^a   Swensson, Richard G ^a   Feldman, Uri ^a,c   Seltzer, Steven E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Cape Radiology Group Inc   (United States)

^c Monitor United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Images, analysis; Liver neoplasms, CT; Liver neoplasms, localization; Radiology and radiologists, observer performance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIVER; LIVER TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; VASCULARIZATION; VISION;

HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031132284     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1076-6332(97)80113-4     Document Type: Article

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