Multi-institutional validation of a novel textural analysis tool for preoperative stratification of suspected thyroid tumors on diffusion-weighted MRI

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1708-1716

  Brown, Anna M ^a,b   Nagala, Sidhartha ^c   McLean, Mary A ^a   Lu, Yonggang ^d   Scoffings, Daniel ^c   Apte, Aditya ^d   Gonen, Mithat ^d   Stambuk, Hilda E ^d   Shaha, Ashok R ^d   Tuttle, R Michael ^d   Deasy, Joseph O ^d   PriesT, Andrew N ^c   Jani, Piyush ^e   Shukla Dave, Amita ^d   Griffiths, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Cambridge General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diffusion weighted MRI; textural analysis; thyroid tumors

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASES; PERSONNEL TRAINING; STATISTICAL TESTS; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TEXTURES; TUMORS;

APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVES; DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI; LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; THYROID TUMORS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THYROID CANCER; VALIDATION PROCESS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; THYROID GLAND; THYROID TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84930014016     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25743     Document Type: Article

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