Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 588-592 , December 2009

A computer-aided diagnostic system to discriminate SPIO-enhanced magnetic resonance hepatocellular carcinoma by a neural network classifier

  • Dongmei Guo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
    • Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027, China
    • ,
  • Tianshuang Qiu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Jie Bian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027, China
    • ,
  • Wei Kang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Electronic Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
    • ,
  • Li Zhang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116027, China

Received 31 October 2008 ,Accepted 9 April 2009.

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PII: S0895-6111(09)00045-7

doi: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2009.04.005

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 588-592 , December 2009

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