Statistical analysis of lung nodule volume measurements with CT in a large-scale phantom study

• Published in: Medical physics (Lancaster) Vol. 42; no. 7; p. 3932
• Main Authors: Li, Qin, Gavrielides, Marios A, Sahiner, Berkman, Myers, Kyle J, Zeng, Rongping, Petrick, Nicholas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Data Interpretation, Statistical; Datasets as Topic; Likelihood Functions; Linear Models; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Models, Biological; Phantoms, Imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - instrumentation; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods

To determine inter-related factors that contribute substantially to measurement error of pulmonary nodule measurements with CT by assessing a large-scale dataset of phantom scans and to quantitatively validate the repeatability and reproducibility of a subset containing nodules and CT acquisitions c...