Chinese Journal of Medical Imaging Technology 2010;26(1):171-174

Application of computer-aided detection in CT colonography

Huimao ZHANG ; Fengli QIAO ; Zhongwen LV

Keywords

Computer-aided detection; Tomography,X-ray computed

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

CT colonography (CTC) has been widely used in diagnosis of colon diseases. Computer-aided detection (CAD) automatically detects the locations of suspicious lesions on CTC, and provides radiologists with a second opinion. CAD has the potential to increase radiologists' diagnostic performance in the detection of lesions and to decrease variability of the diagnostic accuracy among readers. The current fundamental scheme, the key techniques used for detection of lesions on CTC, the detection performance, as well as the pitfalls, challenges, and the future of CAD were reviewed in this article.