Lung cancer: Performance of automated lung nodule detection applied to cancers missed in a CT screening program

Radiology

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 685-692

  Armato III, Samuel G ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Giger, Maryellen L ^a   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Sone, Shusuke ^b   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Azumi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Computed tomography (CT), image processing; Computers, diagnostic aid; Lung neoplasms, CT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036891913     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2253011376     Document Type: Article

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