Pulmonary nodules detected at lung cancer screening: Interobserver variability of semiautomated volume measurements

Radiology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 251-257

  Gietema, Hester A ^a   Wang, Ying ^b   Xu, Dongming ^b   Van Klaveren, Rob J ^c   De Koning, Harry ^c   Scholten, Ernst ^e   Verschakelen, Johny ^f   Kohl, Gerhard ^d   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^e Kennemer Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMIAUTOMATED VOLUME MEASUREMENT; SMOKING; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AUTOMATION; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33748923799     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2411050860     Document Type: Article

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