Detection and quantification of the solid component in pulmonary subsolid nodules by semiautomatic segmentation

European Radiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 488-496

  Scholten, Ernst Th ^a,b   Jacobs, Colin ^c   van Ginneken, Bram ^c,d   van Riel, Sarah ^c   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^e   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^e   de Koning, Harry J ^f   Horeweg, Nanda ^f   Prokop, Mathias ^c   Gietema, Hester A ^a   Mali, Willem P Th M ^a   de Jong, Pim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Infection and Immunology   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d FRAUNHOFER MEVIS   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Computer aided diagnosis; Lung cancer; Screening; Subsolid pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY SUBSOLID NODULE; RADIOLOGIST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMIAUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84921937349     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3427-z     Document Type: Article

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