Does computer-assisted detection of pulmonary emboli enhance severity assessment and risk stratification in acute pulmonary embolism?

Clinical Radiology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 137-144

  Engelke, C ^a   Schmidt, S ^b   Auer, F ^b   Rummeny, E J ^b   Marten, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 73649092062     PISSN: 00099260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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