Open AccessThe clinical significance of ultrasound grayscale ratio in differentiating markedly hypoechoic and anechoic minimal thyroid nodules
Author(s) -
Zhikai Lei,
Mingkui Li,
Dingcun Luo,
Zhijiang Han
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_1031_17
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , anechoic chamber , ultrasound , grayscale , nuclear medicine , radiology , youden's j statistic , telecommunications , pixel , computer science , computer vision
This study explored ultrasound grayscale ratios (USGRs) for differentiating markedly hypoechoic and anechoic minimal thyroid nodules.