Texture analysis on 18F-FDG PET/CT images to differentiate malignant and benign bone and soft-tissue lesions

Annals of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 926-935

  Xu, Rui ^a   Kido, Shoji ^b   Suga, Kazuyoshi ^c   Hirano, Yasushi ^b   Tachibana, Rie ^d   Muramatsu, Keiichiro ^e   Chagawa, Kazuki ^e   Tanaka, Satoshi ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c St Hill Hospital   (Japan)

^d OSHIMA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Bone and soft tissue lesions; Computer aided diagnosis (CAD); Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BONE LESION; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PET-CT SCANNER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BONE; BONE NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC USE; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCINTISCANNING; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BONE AND BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84914178845     PISSN: 09147187     EISSN: 18646433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0895-9     Document Type: Article

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