Persistent pure ground-glass nodules larger than 5 mm: Differentiation of invasive pulmonary adenocarcinomas from preinvasive lesions or minimally invasive adenocarcinomas using texture analysis

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 798-804

  Hwang, In Pyeong ^a   Park, Chang Min ^a,b,c   Park, Sang Joon ^a,b   Lee, Sang Min ^a   McAdams, Holman Page ^c   Jeon, Yoon Kyung ^a   Goo, Jin Mo ^a,b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Graduate School   (South Korea)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma in situ; Carcinoma; Computer assisted; Non small cell lung; Texture analysis; Tomography; X ray computed

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INVASIVE PULMONARY ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG NODULE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE GROUND GLASS NODULE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURFACE AREA; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME; ADENOCARCINOMA; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLITARY PULMONARY NODULE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84943805837     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0000000000000186     Document Type: Article

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