Clinical evaluation of a renal mass diagnostic expert system

✍ Scribed by Phei Lang Chang; Yu Chuan Li; Chi Ju Wu; Ming Hsiung Huang; Peter John Haug

• Book ID: 103053746
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 686 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-4825
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-4825(94)90028-0

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we describe our clinical evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the renal mass diagnostic system (RMDS) and of seven physicians. To investigate the value of intravenous urography (IVU) and/or retrograde urography (RU) in diagnosing renal parenchy-ma1 tumors and tumors of the renal pelvis, RMDS and the seven physicians were tested with and without the information regarding IVUlRU at two different times. From this study we believe that RMDS can help residents in making more accurate presurgical renal mass diagnosis, and may eliminate the need for IVU/RU in the diagnosing process for a specific group of patients.

Decision support system Retrograde urography

Expert system

Renal mass Intravenous urography