Conspicuity of Colorectal Polyps at CT Colonography. Visual Assessment, CAD Performance, and the Important Role of Polyp Height

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 4-14

  Summers, Ronald M ^a   Frentz, Suzanne M ^a   Liu, Jiamin ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Brown, Linda ^a   Louie, Adeline ^a   Barlow, Duncan S ^b   Jensen, Donald W ^b   Dwyer, Andrew J ^a   Pickhardt, Perry J ^c   Petrick, Nicholas ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

colon; colon cancer; conspicuity; CT

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POLYP HEIGHT; POLYP WIDTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RATING SCALE; RECALL BIAS; RECTUM POLYP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO TAILED TEST; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 57049093852     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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