Tumor detection in the bladder wall with a measurement of abnormal thickness in CT scans

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-390

  Jaume, Sylvain ^a   Ferrant, Matthieu ^b   Macq, Benoît ^a   Hoyte, Lennox ^c   Fielding, Julia R ^d   Schreyer, Andreas ^c   Kikinis, Ron ^c   Warfield, Simon K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (France)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical atlas; Bladder wall; Computer aided diagnosis; Thickness measurement; Tumor detection; Virtual cystoscopy; Virtual endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; TUMORS;

VIRTUAL CYSTOSCOPY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER TUMOR; BLADDER WALL; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0344406100     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2003.808828     Document Type: Article

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