The use of inversion mode and 3D manual segmentation in volume measurement of fetal fluid-filled structures: Comparison with Virtual Organ Computer-aided AnaLysis (VOCAL™)

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-186

  Kusanovic, J P ^a,b   Nien, J K ^a,b   Goncalves L F ^a,b,c   Espinoza, J ^a,b,c   Lee, W ^d   Balasubramaniam, M ^d   Soto, E ^a,b   Erez, O ^a,b   Romero, R ^a,b,c,e  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HUTZEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3DUS; Fetal bladder; Fetal stomach; Three dimensional ultrasonography; Volume measurements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS BLADDER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OBSERVER BIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 51949084706     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: 14690705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.5242     Document Type: Article

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