Xinfang Wang1, Lianqing Hong2, Xi Wu3, Jia He3, Ting Wang3,4,*, Hongbo Li5, Shaoling Liu6
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.61, No.1, pp. 141-154, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.06030
Abstract An ultrasonic nomogram was developed for preoperative prediction of Castleman disease (CD) pathological type (hyaline vascular (HV) or plasma cell (PC) variant) to improve the understanding and diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound for this disease. Fifty cases of CD confirmed by pathology were gathered from January 2012 to October 2018 from three hospitals. A grayscale ultrasound image of each patient was collected and processed. First, the region of interest of each gray ultrasound image was manually segmented using a process that was guided and calibrated by radiologists who have been engaged in imaging diagnosis for more… More >