Computer-aided Diagnosis of Focal Liver Lesions by Use of Physicians' Subjective Classification of Echogenic Patterns in Baseline and Contrast-enhanced Ultrasonography

Academic Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 401-411

  Sugimoto, Katsutoshi ^a   Shiraishi, Junji ^a   Moriyasu, Fuminori ^a   Doi, Kunio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

computer aided diagnosis; Contrast enhanced sonography; focal liver lesion; Sonazoid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEMALE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRON; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; OXIDES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61649085716     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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