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. 2010 Jan;37(1):63-73.
doi: 10.1118/1.3264662.

Automated estimation of progression of interstitial lung disease in CT images

Yulia Arzhaeva  1 , Mathias Prokop, Keelin Murphy, Eva M van Rikxoort, Pim A de Jong, Hester A Gietema, Max A Viergever, Bram van Ginneken
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Automated estimation of progression of interstitial lung disease in CT images

Yulia Arzhaeva et al. Med Phys. 2010 Jan.

Abstract

Purpose: A system is presented for automated estimation of progression of interstitial lung disease in serial thoracic CT scans.

Methods: The system compares corresponding 2D axial sections from baseline and follow-up scans and concludes whether this pair of sections represents regression, progression, or unchanged disease status. The correspondence between serial CT scans is achieved by intrapatient volumetric image registration. The system classification function is trained with two different feature sets. Features in the first set represent the intensity distribution of a difference image between the baseline and follow-up CT sections. Features in the second set represent dissimilarities computed between the baseline and follow-up images filtered with a bank of general purpose texture filters.

Results: In an experiment on 74 scan pairs, the system classification accuracies were 76.1% and 79.5% for the two feature sets, respectively, while the accuracies of two observer radiologist were 78.5% and 82%, respectively. The agreements of the system with the reference standard, measured by weighted kappa statistics, were 0.611 and 0.683 for the two feature sets, respectively.

Conclusions: The system employing the second feature set showed good agreement with the reference standard, and its accuracy approached that of two radiologists.

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