The purpose of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance of an artificial neural network (ANN) in differentiating among certain diffuse lung diseases using high-resolution CT (HRCT) and the effect of ANN output on radiologists' diagnostic performance.
Department of Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Division of Radiological Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1, Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan.