A comparison of six software packages for evaluation of solid lung nodules using semi-automated volumetry: What is the minimum increase in size to detect growth in repeated CT examinations

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 800-808

  Hoop, Bartjan ^a   Gietema, Hester ^a   Ginneken, Bram ^b   Zanen, Pieter ^a   Groenewegen, Gerard ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Pulmonary nodule; Reproducibility; Segmentation; Volumetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG NODULE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VOLUMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 62649137035     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1229-x     Document Type: Article

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