Indexing thoracic CT reports using a preliminary version of a standardized radiological lexicon (RadLex)

Journal of Digital Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 363-370

  Marwede, Dirk ^a   Schulz, Thomas ^a   Kahn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chest CT; Classification; Reporting; Terminology

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; CHEST CT; CLASSIFICATION; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; FOLLOW UP; PATIENT AGES; RANDOM SAMPLES; REPORTING; SMALL SAMPLES; THORACIC CT; WHITNEY;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); IMAGE QUALITY; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TERMINOLOGY;

ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL LEXICON; RANK SUM TEST; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; ADULT; AGED; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 55649122549     PISSN: 08971889     EISSN: 1618727X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10278-007-9051-6     Document Type: Article

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