Computer assisted detection software for CT colonography: Effect of sphericity filter on performance characteristics for patients with and without fecal tagging

European Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 662-668

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a   Halligan, Steve ^b   Taylor, Stuart A ^b   Roddie, Mary E ^c   McQuillan, Justine ^a   Honeyfield, Lesley ^a   Amin, Hamdan ^a  

^a Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colon (CT); Colon cancer; Colonography (CT); Computer assisted detection

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; SCOPOLAMINE BUTYL BROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM POLYP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BARIUM SULFATE; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FECES; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846947581     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-006-0430-z     Document Type: Article

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