Measurement of Focal Ground-glass Opacity Diameters on CT Images. Interobserver Agreement in Regard to Identifying Increases in the Size of Ground-Glass Opacities.

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 389-394

  Kakinuma, Ryutaro ^a   Ashizawa, Kazuto ^b   Kuriyama, Keiko ^c   Fukushima, Aya ^d   Ishikawa, Hiroyuki ^e   Kamiya, Hisashi ^f   Koizumi, Naoya ^g   Maruyama, Yuichiro ^h   Minami, Kazunori ^d   Nitta, Norihisa ⁱ   Oda, Seitaro ^j   Oshiro, Yasuji ^k   Kusumoto, Masahiko ^l   Murayama, Sadayuki ^f   Murata, Kiyoshi ⁱ   Muramatsu, Yukio ^a   Moriyama, Noriyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g Niigata Cancer Center   (Japan)

^h Department of Anesthesiology   (Japan)

ⁱ SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^j KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k National Hospital Organization Okinawa National Hospital   (Japan)

^l NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Computed tomography; Diameter; Ground glass opacity; Interobserver agreement; Lung

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RADIOLOGIST;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858796760     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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