A novel automated platform for quantifying the extent of skeletal tumour involvement in prostate cancer patients using the bone scan index

European Urology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-84

  Ulmert, David ^a,b   Kaboteh, Reza ^c   Fox, Josef J ^b   Savage, Caroline ^b   Evans, Michael J ^b   Lilja, Hans ^a,b   Abrahamsson, Per Anders ^a   Björk, Thomas ^a   Gerdtsson, Axel ^a   Bjartell, Anders ^a   Gjertsson, Peter ^c   Höglund, Peter ^d   Lomsky, Milan ^c   Ohlsson, Mattias ^a,e   Richter, Jens ^e   Sadik, May ^c   Morris, Michael J ^b   Scher, Howard I ^b   Sjöstrand, Karl ^f   Yu, Alice ^b   Suurküla, Madis ^c   Edenbrandt, Lars ^a,c   Larson, Steven M ^b   more..

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e EXINI Diagnostics AB   (Sweden)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Automated detection; Automated quantification; Bone metastases; Bone Scan Index; Computer assisted diagnosis; Image analysis; Radionuclide imaging; Risk prediction

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE SCAN INDEX; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BONE TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEOPLASM GRADING; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNETIUM TC 99M MEDRONATE; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 84861602779     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: 18737560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2012.01.037     Document Type: Article

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