A method for the automatic quantification of the completeness of pulmonary fissures: Evaluation in a database of subjects with severe emphysema

European Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 302-309

  Van Rikxoort, Eva M ^a   Goldin, Jonathan G ^a   Galperin Aizenberg, Maya ^a   Abtin, Fereidoun ^a   Kim, Hyun J ^a   Lu, Peiyun ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^b,c   Shaw, Greg ^a   Brown, Matthew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automation; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Computer assisted radiographic image interpretation; Lung radiography; X ray computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPHYSEMA; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LOBE; MEDICAL EXPERT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY FISSURE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; AUTOMATION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; ROC CURVE; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856608008     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2278-0     Document Type: Article

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