Quantitative radiology: Automated CT liver volumetry compared with interactive volumetry and manual volumetry

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Suzuki, Kenji ^a   Epstein, Mark L ^a   Kohlbrenner, Ryan ^a   Garg, Shailesh ^a   Hori, Masatoshi ^a,b   Oto, Aytekin ^a   Baron, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Computer assisted diagnosis; Computer assisted image analysis; CT; Liver transplantation; Organ volume

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DONOR SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER WEIGHT; LIVING DONOR; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARDIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053254447     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.5958     Document Type: Article

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