Usefulness of reversed display of soft-copy abdominal radiographs for urinary calculi detection

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-356

  Kang, S S ^b   Kim, Jeong Kon ^a   Ryu, J A ^b   Choi, N ^b   Bae, S J ^b   Kim, B ^b  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdomen, radiography; Images, processing; Kidney, calculi; Picture archiving and communication system; Ureter, calculi

Indexed keywords

CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SCANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ABDOMEN; CALCULI; IMAGES; KIDNEY; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; URETER;

RADIOGRAPHY;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE; URETER STONE;

AREA UNDER CURVE; HUMANS; KIDNEY CALCULI; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URETERAL CALCULI;

EID: 2442636373     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841850410004968     Document Type: Article

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