Investigation of new psychophysical measures for evaluation of similar images on thoracic computed tomography for distinction between benign and malignant nodules

Medical Physics

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2584-2593

  Li, Qiang ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Shiraishi, Junji ^a   Katsuragawa, Shigehiko ^a   Sone, Shusuke ^a,b   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b JA Azumi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Low dose CT; Lung nodule; Similar nodule; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEATURE-BASED TECHNIQUES; LOW-DOSE CT; LUNG NODULE; PSYCHOPHYSICAL MEASURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS ANALYSIS; SIMILAR NODULE; SIMILARITY MEASURE;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY;

EID: 0142089902     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1605351     Document Type: Article

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