Quantitative investigative analysis of tumour separability in the prostate gland using ultra-high b-value computed diffusion imaging

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 420-423

  Glaister, Jeffrey ^a   Cameron, Andrew ^a   Wong, Alexander ^a   Haider, Masoom A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; B VALUE; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; DIFFUSION IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MAGNETIC GRADIENT; PATIENT CASE; PROSTATE GLANDS; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; ULTRA-HIGH;

DIFFUSION; FADING (RADIO); TUMORS; UROLOGY;

DIAGNOSIS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84883578038     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6345957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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