Computer aided detection and diagnosis in radiology

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During the past two decades, the volume of image data produced within Radiology Departments has grown continuously, with a doubling time of approximately 2 years. This increase is mainly due to the growing demand for high resolution sectional imaging. It can be foreseen that introduction of functional imaging techniques into clinical routine will contribute to further increases in data production in radiology. However, the number of radiologists has not been growing in parallel. Consequently, the productivity in terms of number of images to be analysed in a given time span per radiologist has increased substantially in the past few years and will be further growing in the future. …