Automated measurement of lymph nodes: A phantom study

European Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1079-1086

  Keil, Sebastian ^a   Plumhans, Cedric ^a   Behrendt, Florian F ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Suehling, Michael ^b   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a   Günther, Rolf W ^a   Das, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automated measurement; Lymph nodes; MDCT; Phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; KERNEL METHOD; LYMPH NODE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 64249095503     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-008-1254-9     Document Type: Article

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