Comparison of reproducibility of manual and sphere contour methods for the measurement of vascularization in cervical carcinoma using the virtual organ computer-aided analysis II system

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1801-1810

  Qin, Jiale ^a   Wang, Junmei ^a   Lu, Weiguo ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Yao, Weimiao ^a   Qian, Yue ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic sphere contour mode; Manual contour mode; Reproducibility; Vascular indices; Virtual organ computer aided analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL; MEDICAL COMPUTING; SPHERES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

3-DIMENSIONAL POWER DOPPLER ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTOUR MODE; INTERCLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; REPRODUCIBILITIES; VASCULAR INDICES; VASCULARIZATION FLOW INDICES; VIRTUAL ORGAN COMPUTER-AIDED ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649543246     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.12.1801     Document Type: Article

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