Integrating PET and CT information to improve diagnostic accuracy for lung nodules: A semiautomatic computer-aided method

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1075-1080

  Nie, Yongkang ^a,b   Li, Qiang ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Pu, Yonglin ^a   Appelbaum, Daniel ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Computer aided diagnosis; Lung cancer; PET CT; Pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME; WHOLE BODY CT; WHOLE BODY PET; AGED; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; ROC CURVE;

AGED; AUTOMATION; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33747105270     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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