A Decision-Support Tool for Renal Mass Classification.

abstract：:Bone density measurement by quantitative computed tomography (QCT) commonly uses an external reference phantom to decrease scan-to-scan and scanner-to-scanner variability. However, the peripheral location of these phantoms and other phantom variables is also responsible for a measurable degradation in accuracy and pre...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Boden SD,Goodenough DJ,Stockham CD,Jacobs E,Dina T,Allman RM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer algorithm for information retrieval from an electronic teaching file has been developed. This index enables the user to retrieve cases from a teaching file, based on the input of a combination of features. The algorithm is based on nearest neighbor analysis, and is programmed in the "C" language. A teaching...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Bramble JM,Insana MF,Dwyer SJ 3rd

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequently when patient and study identification information (patient name, patient identification, date of birth, sex, and accession number) are manually entered at a modality, typographical errors occur that have to be corrected before the acquired images can be matched to the proper patient and study on a picture a...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kuzmak PM,Dayhoff RE

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In today's radiology workflow, free-text reporting is established as the most common medium to capture, store, and communicate clinical information. Radiologists routinely refer to prior radiology reports of a patient to recall critical information for new diagnosis, which is quite tedious, time consuming, and prone t...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Tahmasebi AM,Zhu H,Mankovich G,Prinsen P,Klassen P,Pilato S,van Ommering R,Patel P,Gunn ML,Chang P

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Architectural distortion is an important sign of breast cancer, but because of its subtlety, it is a common cause of false-negative findings on screening mammograms. This paper presents methods for the detection of architectural distortion in mammograms of interval cancer cases taken prior to the detection of breast c...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Rangayyan RM,Banik S,Desautels JE

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Training as a radiology resident is a complex task. Residents frequently encounter multiple hospital systems, each with unique workflow patterns and heterogenous information systems. We identified an opportunity to ease some of the resulting anxiety and frustration by centralizing high-quality resources using a wiki. ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kohli MD,Bradshaw JK

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to retrospectively evaluate radiologist performance in detection of lacunar infarcts on T1- and T2-weighted images, without and with the use of a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) scheme. Thirty T1-weighted and 30 T2-weighted MR images obtained from 30 patients were used for assessing observ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Uchiyama Y,Asano T,Kato H,Hara T,Kanematsu M,Hoshi H,Iwama T,Fujita H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical documentation is one of the primary methods by which physicians share clinical information and impressions over time with one another. As the adage says, "a picture is worth a thousand words," and physicians have started leveraging consumer mobile technology to share images with one another. However, image sha...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mechanic OJ,Kurtzman ND,Chiu DT,Nathanson LA,Berkowitz SJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While uncertainty is ubiquitous in medical practice, minimal work to date has been performed to analyze the cause and effect relationship between uncertainty and patient outcomes. In medical imaging practice, uncertainty in the radiology report has been well documented to be a source of clinician dissatisfaction. Befo...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Reiner BI

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce the concept, benefits, and general architecture for acquiring, storing, and displaying digital photographs along with medical imaging examinations. We also discuss a specific implementation built around an Android-based system for simultaneously acquiring digital photographs along with portable radiograph...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Ramamurthy S,Bhatti P,Arepalli CD,Salama M,Provenzale JM,Tridandapani S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital or computed radiography (CR) using photostimulable storage phosphor plate technology is becoming increasingly popular in certain clinical applications, such as bedside radiography, where it possesses clear advantages over conventional screen-film imaging. The majority of CR systems in clinical use have been ma...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Gingold EL,Tucker DM,Barnes GT

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A C-language software program has been developed for emulating the image enhancement processing of a storage phosphor plate system. This software has been implemented on a VAX 3400 computer. There are 2,100 lines of C-language code in the program. There are seven parameters used to specify the degree of enhancement. T...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Templeton AW,Wetzel LH,Cook LT,Harrison LA,Eckard DA,Anderson WH,Hensley KS

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some nuclear medicine computer displays, as well as many image processing workstations are "true color" machines characterized by independent memory and grey scale mapping for each of the red, green and blue color channels. Other color image display systems produce a color image from a single grey scale map composed o...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Raff U,Spitzer VM

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To illustrate the availability, effectiveness, and practical use of Open-Source tools in developing a radiology paper from its beginning to its presentation and publication. Practical use of a complete set of Open-Source applications for writing, e-mail corresponding, slide show, image retrieval, and manipulation is s...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Faccioli N,Perandini S,Barillari M,D'Onofrio M,Mucelli RP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bar-code terminal network under software control of a microcomputer was added to the minicomputer-based radiology information system at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. The bar-code network was specifically installed to address the inherent inaccuracies occurring when procedure information was entered at t...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： David G,Gregory S

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communicating radiological reports to peers has pedagogical value. Students may be uneasy with the process due to a lack of communication and peer review skills or to their failure to see value in the process. We describe a communication exercise with peer review in an undergraduate veterinary radiology course. The co...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： McEvoy FJ,Shen NW,Nielsen DH,Buelund LE,Holm P

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes an application for capturing, delivering, and tracking urgent radiology exam results. Urgent exam findings are entered using a Web form embedded within the Picture archiving and communication system (PACS) display station. The findings are then accessible via soft copy using the PACS display sta...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Tellis WM,Andriole KP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript reviews Touch Surgery, a novel online platform geared towards innovating professional training for surgical procedures. In other industries, such as aviation, simulation has already been shown to reduce costs and improve outcomes in crisis (JETS 3(4):348-352, 2010). Studies involving simulation-based l...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mandler AG

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study is to retrospectively investigate whether using the newly developed algorithms would improve radiologists' accuracy for discriminating malignant masses from benign ones on ultrasonographic (US) images. Five radiologists blinded to the histological results and clinical history independently ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Wang Y,Wang H,Guo Y,Ning C,Liu B,Cheng HD,Tian J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a joint segmentation and groupwise registration method for dynamic cardiac perfusion images that uses temporal information. The nature of perfusion images makes groupwise registration especially attractive as the temporal information from the entire image sequence can be used. Registration aims to maximize ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Mahapatra D

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to determine whether facial photographs obtained simultaneously with radiographs improve radiologists' detection rate of wrong-patient errors, when they are explicitly asked to include the photographs in their evaluation. Radiograph-photograph combinations were obtained from 28 patients at the...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Tridandapani S,Olsen K,Bhatti P

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose the design of a teaching system named Interpretation and Diagnosis of Mammograms (INDIAM) for training students in the interpretation of mammograms and diagnosis of breast cancer. The proposed system integrates an illustrated tutorial on radiology of the breast, that is, mammography, which uses education te...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Guliato D,Bôaventura RS,Maia MA,Rangayyan RM,Simedo MS,Macedo TA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the differential cost between film-based radiology and a hospital-wide picture archiving and communication system (PACS) implemented all at once. The cash flow and running costs of PACS and film-based operation were measured over an 8-year time horizon. When the hospital-wi...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Fang YC,Yang MC,Hsueh YS

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a review of image quality assessment methods for monochrome CRTs in the field as opposed to the laboratory. The review includes image quality programs at the University of Washington, the University of Texas at Houston, the University of Michigan, and the University of Arizona. CRT manufacturers ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Roehrig H,Willis CE,Damento MA

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Content-based medical image retrieval (CBMIR) is a powerful resource to improve differential computer-aided diagnosis. The major problem with CBMIR applications is the semantic gap, a situation in which the system does not follow the users' sense of similarity. This gap can be bridged by the adequate modeling of simil...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Bedo MV,Pereira Dos Santos D,Ponciano-Silva M,de Azevedo-Marques PM,Ferreira de Carvalho AP,Traina C Jr

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scheduling of CT and MR exams requires reasonable estimates for expected scan duration. However, scan-time variability and efficiency gains from combining multiple exams are not quantitatively well characterized. In this work, we developed an informatics approach to quantify typical duration, duration variability, and...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Zhang R,Narra VR,Kansagra AP

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric analysis of nuclei is crucial in cytological examinations. Unfortunately, nuclei segmentation presents many challenges because they usually create complex clusters in cytological samples. To deal with this problem, we are proposing an approach, which combines convolutional neural network and watershed tra...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kowal M,Żejmo M,Skobel M,Korbicz J,Monczak R

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the usefulness of a computerized analysis system in the detection of interstitial lung abnormalities in digitized chest radiography. This system uses the processes of four-directional Laplacian-Gaussian filtering, linear opacity judgment, and linear opacity subtraction. For qualitative analysis, we employ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Kido S,Ikezoe J,Tamura S,Nakamura H,Kuroda C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a set of worksheets to facilitate standardized comparisons among scheduling systems, hospital information systems, radiology information systems, and picture archiving and communication systems vendors. For each system category, we provide worksheets to evaluate the features, performance, installation req...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Langer S,Wang J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study is to provide the clinical end users of an enterprisewide picture archiving and communication system/Web application with a thorough understanding of the application and education to maintain patient privacy and protection. ...

journal_title：Journal of digital imaging

authors： Cook K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00