Volume versus diameter assessment of small pulmonary nodules in CT lung cancer screening

Translational Lung Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 52-61

  Han, Daiwei ^a   Heuvelmans, Marjolein A ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Manual diameter measurement; Semi automated volume measurement; Small pulmonary nodule

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NODULE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHANTOM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; TUMOR DIAMETER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 85014327338     PISSN: 22186751     EISSN: 22264477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21037/tlcr.2017.01.05     Document Type: Review

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