Computer-aided detection of exophytic renal lesions on non-contrast CT images

Medical Image Analysis

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-29

  Liu, Jianfei ^a   Wang, Shijun ^a   Linguraru, Marius George ^b,c   Yao, Jianhua ^a   Summers, Ronald M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief propagation; Computer aided diagnosis; Extracolonic findings; Manifold diffusion process; Renal lesions

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BELIEF PROPAGATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTER-AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER-AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM; DIFFUSION PROCESS; EXTRACOLONIC FINDINGS; MULTISCALE DIFFUSION; RENAL LESIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DETECTION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS SYSTEMS;

DIFFUSION; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY TUMOR; LIVER; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SPLEEN; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR INVASION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; KIDNEY INJURY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84906836033     PISSN: 13618415     EISSN: 13618423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.media.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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