Visual versus automated evaluation of chest computed tomography for the presence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

BACKGROUND: Incidental CT findings may provide an opportunity for early detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which may prove important in CT-based lung cancer screening setting. We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of human observers to visually evaluate COPD presen...

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Published in:	PLoS ONE
Main Authors:	Onno M Mets, Ewoud J Smit, Firdaus A A Mohamed Hoesein, Hester A Gietema, Reinoud P H Bokkers, Mohamed Attrach, Saskia van Amelsvoort-van de Vorst, Ernst Th Scholten, Constantinus F M Buckens, Matthijs Oudkerk, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Mathias Prokop, Pim A de Jong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Online Access:	http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407100?pdf=render