CT colonography: Advanced computer-aided detection scheme utilizing MTANNs for detection of "missed" polyps in a multicenter clinical trial

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 12-21

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Rockey, Don C ^b   Dachman, Abraham H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer screening; Computer aided diagnosis; False negatives; Missed lesions; Virtual colonoscopy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXTURES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; FALSE NEGATIVES; MISSED LESIONS; MORPHOLOGIC ANALYSIS; MULTI-CENTER CLINICAL TRIALS; SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION; VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY;

COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 73649110599     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3263615     Document Type: Article

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