In vivo repeatability of automated volume calculations of small pulmonary nodules with CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1657-1661

  Rampinelli, Cristiano ^a   De Fiori, Elvio ^a   Raimondi, Sara ^a   Veronesi, Giulia ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

CT; Lung cancer; Pulmonary nodules; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049132429     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1825     Document Type: Article

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