Liver lesion segmentation in MSCT: Effect of slice thickness on segmentation quality, measurement precision and interobserver variability

RoFo Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Rontgenstrahlen und der Bildgebenden Verfahren

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 372-380

  Puesken, Michael ^a   Buerke, B ^a   Fortkamp, R ^a   Koch, R ^a   Seifarth, H ^a   Heindel, W ^a   Wessling J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liver lesions; MSCT; Semi automated segmentation; Slice thickness

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CYST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 79953688536     PISSN: 14389029     EISSN: 14389010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1245983     Document Type: Article

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