Radiologists' performance for differentiating benign from malignant lung nodules on high-resolution CT using computer-estimated likelihood of malignancy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1209-1215

  Li, Feng ^a   Aoyama, Masahito ^b   Shiraishi, Junji ^a   Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Li, Qiang ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Engelmann, Roger ^a   Sone, Shusuke ^c   MacMahon, Heber ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Azumi General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 16544368188     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.5.1831209     Document Type: Article

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