Computer-assisted interpretation of planar whole-body bone scans

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1958-1965

  Sadik, May ^a,e   Hamadeh, Iman ^b   Nordblom, Pierre ^b   Suurkula, Madis ^a   Höglund, Peter ^c   Ohlsson, Mattias ^d   Edenbrandt, Lars ^a,b,d  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b EXINI Diagnostics AB   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bone metastases; Computer assisted diagnosis; Image processing; Neural networks; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 57149087071     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.108.055061     Document Type: Article

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