Development and evaluation of a software tool for the generation of virtual liver lesions in multidetector-row ct datasets

Academic Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 614-620

  Karantzavelos, Konstantinos ^a   Shin, Hoen oh ^a   Jördens, Steffen ^b   King, Benjamin ^a   Ringe, Kristina ^a   Hartung, Dagmar ^a   Wacker, Frank ^a   Von Falck, Christian ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAD; Computed tomography; Lesion; Liver; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIVER INJURY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84875874856     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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