Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 25 New Chardon Street, Suite 400B, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Comput Math Methods Med. 2012;2012:736320. doi: 10.1155/2012/736320. Epub 2012 Oct 3.
An automated, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) algorithm for the quantification of pneumothoraces from Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) images has been developed. Algorithm performance was evaluated through comparison to manual segmentation by expert radiologists. A combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional processing techniques was incorporated to reduce required processing time by two-thirds (as compared to similar techniques). Volumetric measurements on relative pneumothorax size were obtained and the overall performance of the automated method shows an average error of just below 1%.
已经开发出一种用于从多排螺旋 CT(MDCT)图像定量气胸的自动化、计算机辅助诊断(CAD)算法。通过与专家放射科医生的手动分割进行比较来评估算法性能。结合了二维和三维处理技术,将所需的处理时间减少了三分之二(与类似技术相比)。获得了相对气胸大小的体积测量值,并且自动方法的整体性能显示平均误差仅略低于 1%。