Digital analysis of EUS images: "promising" method, but is it ready for "prime time"?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 868-870

  Bhutani, Manoop S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PANCREAS CARCINOMA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PANCREAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42949167186     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.12.061     Document Type: Editorial

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