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SUBMITTER: Gibbs JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2674334 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gibbs Jason D JD Graham Michael W MW Higgins William E WE
Computers in biology and medicine 20090212 3
The diagnosis and staging of lung cancer often begins with the assessment of a suspect peripheral chest site. Such suspicious peripheral sites may be solitary pulmonary nodules or other abnormally appearing regions of interest (ROIs). The state-of-the-art process for assessing such peripheral ROIs involves off-line procedure planning using a three-dimensional (3D) multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) chest scan followed by bronchoscopy with an ultrathin bronchoscope. We present an integrated ...[more]