Computer-aided detection and diagnosis at the start of the third millennium.

Full Abstract

Computer-aided diagnosis has been under development for more than 3 decades. The rate of progress appears exponential, with either recent approval or pending approval for devices focusing on mammography, chest radiographs, and chest CT. Related technologies improve diagnosis for many other types of medical images including virtual colonography, vascular imaging, as well as automated quantitation of image-derived metrics. A variety of techniques are currently employed with success, likely reflecting the variety of imagery used, as well as the variety of tasks. Most areas of medical imaging have had efforts at computer assistance, and some have even received FDA approval and can be reimbursed. We anticipate that the rapid advance of these technologies will continue, and that application will broaden to cover much of medical imaging. Acceptance of, and integration of computer-aided diagnosis technology with the electronic radiology practice is a current challenge. These challenges will be overcome, and we expect that computer-aided diagnosis will be routinely applied to medical images.

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Author information

Author/s: Erickson, Bradley J (BJ); Bartholmai, Brian (B);

Affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA. bje(-atsign-)mayo.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Journal of digital imaging : the official journal of the Society for Computer Applications in Radiology (J Digit Imaging), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Jun; vol 15 (issue 2) : pp 59-68

Dates: Created 2002/11/26; Completed 2003/02/26; Revised 2005/11/16;

PMID: 12297976, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Colonography, Computed Tomographic
Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted - trends
Female
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Male

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