Computer-aided detection of pulmonary embolism: Influence on radiologists' detection performance with respect to vessel segments

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1350-1355

  Das, Marco ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Helm, Anita ^a   Bakai, Annemarie ^b   Salganicoff, Marcos ^c   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Liang, Jianming ^c   Wolf, Matthias ^c   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Wildberger, Joachim Ernst ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Siemens Medical Solutions   (United States)

^c CT Division   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer tomography angiogram (CTA); Computer aided detection (CAD); Multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT); Pulmonary embolism (PE)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 45849092871     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-0889-x     Document Type: Article

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