Feasibility and reproducibility of fetal lung texture analysis by automatic quantitative ultrasound analysis and correlation with gestational age

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 230-236

  Cobo, Teresa ^a   Bonet Carne, Elisenda ^b   Martínez Terrón, Mónica ^a   Perez Moreno, Alvaro ^b   Elías, Núria ^a   Luque, Jordi ^b   Amat Roldan, Ivan ^b   Palacio, Montse ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Transmural Biotech SL   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fetal lung maturity; Quantitative ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC QUANTITATIVE ULTRASOUND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS LUNG; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASOUND SCANNER;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; LUNG; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84862505463     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335349     Document Type: Article

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