Automated extraction of radiation dose information from CT dose report images

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 196, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Li, Xinhua ^a   Zhang, Da ^a   Liu, Bob ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT dose image; Optical character recognition; Text extraction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA EXTRACTION; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79960530471     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5718     Document Type: Article

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