Impact of contrast injection and stent-graft implantation on reproducibility of volume measurements in semiautomated segmentation of abdominal aortic aneurysm on computed tomography

European Radiology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1594-1601

  Morin Roy, Florence ^a   Kauffmann, Claude ^b   Tang, An ^b,c   Hadjadj, Sofiane ^a   Thomas, Olivier ^a   Piché, Nicolas ^d   Elkouri, Stéphane ^b   Yang, Dan Yang ^a   Therasse, Éric ^b   Soulez, Gilles ^a,b  

^a NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^d Object Research System   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Computed tomography; Computer assisted; Contrast media; Image processing; Stents

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; AGED; AORTA WALL; AORTIC ANEURYSM ENDOVASCULAR GRAFT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY; STENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; STENTS;

EID: 84902368103     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3175-0     Document Type: Article

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