RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems fundamentally
require the opinions of expert human observers to establish “truth” for algorithm …

The development of comprehensive picture archive and communication systems (PACS)
has mainly been limited to proprietary developments by vendors, though a number of freely …

Cancer contributes to a large proportion of the mortality and morbidity in the United States
and worldwide. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment of various cancers, early …

Abstract RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: This article describes issues and methods that are
specific to the measurement of change in tumor volume as measured from computed …

The NIH developed a statement on data sharing (effective February 26, 2003) to express the
expectation and support of the timely release and sharing of final research data from NIH …

A troublesome problem in screening for lung cancer is the definition of a “high-risk”
population—the population that could best benefit from lung cancer screening. The I-ELCAP …

Purpose Lung cancer is the most dangerous of all forms of cancer and it has the highest
occurrence rate, world over. Early detection of lung cancer is a difficult task. Medical images …

The conventional wisdom in the field of statistical pattern recognition (SPR) is that the size of
the finite test sample dominates the variance in the assessment of the performance of a …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: An analysis for the optimum selection of image features in
feature domain to represent lung nodules was performed, with implementation into a …

Repositories, data warehouses, public archives, and multimedia databases, especially
those containing images, are important for clinical practice, education, and research in …