Clinical evaluation of the reproducibility of volume measurements of pulmonary nodules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4684 I, Issue , 2002, Pages 316-322

  Wormanns, Dag ^a   Kohl, Gerhard ^b   Klotz, Ernst ^b   Heindel, Walter ^a   Diederich, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary nodule; Volumetric measurement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY DISEASES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TUMORS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

PULMONARY NODULES;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0036033527     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.467172     Document Type: Article

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