Pulmonary Nodules. Preliminary Experience with Semiautomated Volumetric Evaluation by CT Stratum

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 900-911

  Sone, Shusuke ^a   Tsushima, Kenji ^b   Yoshida, Kazuo ^b   Hamanaka, Kazutoshi ^b   Hanaoka, Takaomi ^c   Kondo, Ryoichi ^d  

^a JA Nagano Azumi General Hospital Ikeda   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c JA Nagano Azumi General Hospital   (Japan)

^d National Hospital Organization Matsumoto Medical Center Matsumoto Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT); diagnostic aid; lung cancer; thin sections; three dimensional

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; LUNG BLOOD VESSEL; LUNG NODULE; LUNG VOLUME; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID TUMOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE QUALITY; LUNG TUMOR; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

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

EID: 77953124788     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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