Automated measurement of colorectal polyp height at CT colonography: Hyperplastic polyps are flatter than adenomatous polyps

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1305-1310

  Summers, Ronald M ^a   Liu, Jiamin ^a   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Brown, Linda ^a   Choi, J Richard ^b   Pickhardt, Perry J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated size measurement; Colonoscopy; Colorectal cancer screening; CT colonography; Optical colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CANCER SCREENING; COLON; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT T TEST; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMATOUS POLYPS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMATION; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; COLONOSCOPY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70449503670     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2442     Document Type: Article

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