Evaluation of the solitary pulmonary nodule: size matters, but do not ignore the power of morphology

A Snoeckx, P Reyntiens, D Desbuquoit… - Insights into …, 2018 - Springer
Subsequent to the widespread use of multidetector computed tomography and growing
interest in lung cancer screening, small pulmonary nodules are more frequently detected …

Multi-task deep model with margin ranking loss for lung nodule analysis

L Liu, Q Dou, H Chen, J Qin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and early diagnosis of lung
nodule is of great importance for therapeutic treatment and saving lives. Automated lung …

Ultra-high-resolution computed tomography of the lung: image quality of a prototype scanner

R Kakinuma, N Moriyama, Y Muramatsu, S Gomi… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Purpose The image noise and image quality of a prototype ultra-high-resolution computed
tomography (U-HRCT) scanner was evaluated and compared with those of conventional …

Cost-effectiveness of alternative management strategies for patients with solitary pulmonary nodules

MK Gould, GD Sanders, PG Barnett… - Annals of internal …, 2003 - acpjournals.org
Background: Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is a
potentially useful but expensive test to diagnose solitary pulmonary nodules. Objective: To …

Comparative performance of 18F-FDG PET/MRI and 18F-FDG PET/CT in detection and characterization of pulmonary lesions in 121 oncologic patients

LM Sawicki, J Grueneisen, C Buchbender… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2016 - Soc Nuclear Med
Our objective was to compare 18F-FDG PET/MRI (performed using a contrast-enhanced T1-
weighted fat-suppressed volume-interpolated breath-hold examination [VIBE]) with 18F-FDG …

Differentiation of malignant from benign solitary pulmonary lesions using chest radiography, spiral CT and HRCT

MD Seemann, O Seemann, W Luboldt, H Bonél… - Lung cancer, 2000 - Elsevier
Objective: The aim of this prospective study was to summarize all of the qualitative and
quantitative imaging criteria for the differentiation of solitary pulmonary lesions (SPLs) as …

Limited value of shape, margin and CT density in the discrimination between benign and malignant screen detected solid pulmonary nodules of the NELSON trial

DM Xu, RJ van Klaveren, GH de Bock… - European journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To evaluate prospectively the value of size, shape, margin and density in
discriminating between benign and malignant CT screen detected solid non-calcified …

Pulmonary cavitary nodules on computed tomography: differentiation of malignancy and benignancy

O Honda, M Tsubamoto, A Inoue… - Journal of computer …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To establish computed tomographic findings that enable accurate differentiation
between malignant and benign cavitary lung nodules. Methods: Computed tomographic …

Influence of field of view size on image quality: ultra-high-resolution CT vs. conventional high-resolution CT

T Miyata, M Yanagawa, A Hata, O Honda, Y Yoshida… - European …, 2020 - Springer
Objectives This study was conducted in order to compare the effect of field of view (FOV)
size on image quality between ultra-high-resolution CT (U-HRCT) and conventional high …

MEDS-Net: Multi-encoder based self-distilled network with bidirectional maximum intensity projections fusion for lung nodule detection

M Usman, A Rehman, A Shahid, S Latif… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2024 - Elsevier
Early detection of lung cancer increases cure rates, making precise detection of lung
nodules in computed tomography (CT) images crucial. However, creating an accurate …