The impact of quality assurance assessment on diffusion tensor imaging outcomes in a large-scale population-based cohort

NeuroImage

Volumn 125, Issue , 2016, Pages 903-919

  Roalf, David R ^a   Quarmley, Megan ^a   Elliott, Mark A ^b   Satterthwaite, Theodore D ^a   Vandekar, Simon N ^a,c   Ruparel, Kosha ^a   Gennatas, Efstathios D ^a   Calkins, Monica E ^a   Moore, Tyler M ^a   Hopson, Ryan ^a   Prabhakaran, Karthik ^a   Jackson, Chad T ^a   Verma, Ragini ^b,c   Hakonarson, Hakon ^d   Gur, Ruben C ^a,b   Gur, Raquel E ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Automated quality assurance; Brain maturation; Diffusion tensor imaging; Motion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; AUTOMATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENDER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; ROC CURVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947080318     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.068     Document Type: Article

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