Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 6 , Pages 1832-1844 , December 2005

Computed Tomographic Virtual Colonoscopy Computer-Aided Polyp Detection in a Screening Population

  • Ronald M. Summers

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD, Diagnostic Radiology Department, National Institutes of Health, Building 10, Room 1C660, 10 Center Drive MSC 1182, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1182. fax: (301) 451-5721.
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  • Jianhua Yao

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Perry J. Pickhardt

      Affiliations

    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Marek Franaszek

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Ingmar Bitter

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Daniel Brickman

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • Vamsi Krishna

      Affiliations

    • Diagnostic Radiology Department, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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  • J. Richard Choi

      Affiliations

    • Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
    • Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC

Received 15 June 2005 ,Accepted 17 August 2005.

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 P.J.P.’s current affiliation is: Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin.This research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center. Viatronix supplied the V3D Colon software free of charge. This study used the high-performance computational capabilities of the Biowulf Linux cluster at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland (http://biowulf.nih.gov).

PII: S0016-5085(05)01772-5

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.08.054

Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 6 , Pages 1832-1844 , December 2005

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