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

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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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
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3407100?pdf=render

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