Effect of nodule characteristics on variability of semiautomated volume measurements in pulmonary nodules detected in a lung cancer screening program

Radiology

Volumn 248, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 625-631

  Wang, Ying ^a   Van Klaveren, Rob J ^b   Van Der Zaag Loonen, Hester J ^a   De Bock, Geertruida H ^a   Gietema, Hester A ^c   Dong, Ming Xu ^a   Leusveld, Anne L M ^a   De Koning, Harry J ^b   Scholten, Ernst T ^d   Verschakelen, Johny ^e   Prokop, Mathias ^c   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Kennemer Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG COIN LESION; LUNG TUMOR; LUNG VOLUME; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; COIN LESION, PULMONARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 49049092638     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2482070957     Document Type: Article

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