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Computer-Aided Diagnosis Systems for Lung Cancer: Challenges and Methodologies

Table 7

Assessing the effect of PET/CT on GTV. For each study, the number of patients, the PET/CT fusion method, and the increase and decrease in the GTV as a percentage of the total number of the study cases are reported.

Study Patients PET/CT fusion method GTV increase GTV decrease

Kiffer et al. [187] 15 Graphical co-registration 27% NA
Munley et al. [188] 35 Visual 34% NA
Nestle et al. [189] 34 Visual (side by side) 9% 26%
Mah et al. [190] 30 Software 22% NA
Erdi et al. [191] 11 Software 64% 36%
Bradley et al. [192] 26 Software 46% 12%
Deniaud-Alexandre et al. [193] 101 Software 26% 23%
Ashamalla et al. [195] 19 Hardware 26% 26%
Van Der Wel et al. [194] 21 Visual 14% 52%
Avazpour et al. [198] 11 Software NA NA