CT colonography with computer-aided polyp detection: Volume and attenuation thresholds to reduce false-positive findings owing to the ileocecal valve

Radiology

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 426-432

  O'Connor, Stacy D ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^b,c,d   Choi, J Richard ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEOCECAL VALVE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEOCECAL VALVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750341994     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2412051223     Document Type: Article

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