Semi-automated measurement of hyperdense, hypodense and heterogeneous hepatic metastasis on standard MDCT slices. Comparison of semi-automated and manual measurement of RECIST and WHO criteria

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2456-2465

  Keil, Sebastian ^a   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Sühling, Michael ^b   Koch, Alexander ^a   Bubenzer, Jhenee ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a   Güther, Rolf W ^a   Das, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hepatic metastases; RECIST and WHO criteria; Semi automated measurement,

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; HEPATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RELIABILITY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 54049148579     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1050-6     Document Type: Article

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