Standardize and compare contrast-enhanced ultrasonographic digital images obtained with different technologies: How to overcome the subjectivity

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-262

  D'Onofrio, Mirko ^a   Faccioli, Niccolò ^a   Malagò, Roberto ^a   Zamboni, Giulia ^a   Mucelli, Roberto Pozzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adobe photoshop; Contrast enhanced; Focal liver lesion; Standardization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CADENCE CONTRAST PULSE SEQUENCING (CPS); COHERENT CONTRAST IMAGING (CCI); CONSPICUITY INDEX; FOCAL LIVER LESION;

HARMONIC GENERATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; STANDARDIZATION;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

SONOVUE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHERENT CONTRAST IMAGING; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST PULSE SEQUENCING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNOLOGY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER DISEASES; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 35648941763     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-006-0854-7     Document Type: Article

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