Clinical Evaluation of a Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) Prototype for the Detection of Pulmonary Embolism

Academic Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 651-658

  Buhmann, Sonja ^a   Herzog, Peter ^a   Liang, Jin ^b   Wolf, Mathias ^b   Salganicoff, Marcos ^b   Kirchhoff, Chlodwig ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Becker, Christoph H ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

computed tomography; computer aided diagnosis; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 34250221160     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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