期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY
卷 191, 期 1, 页码 260-265出版社
AMER ROENTGEN RAY SOC
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3091
关键词
chest radiography; computer-aided diagnosis; lung nodules; observer study; vertebral fractures
资金
- NCI NIH HHS [CA98119, CA62625] Funding Source: Medline
OBJECTIVE. We retrospectively evaluated the usefulness of computer- aided diagnosis (CAD) schemes to radiologist performance in the simultaneous detection of vertebral fractures and lung nodules on chest radiographs. MATERIALS AND METHODS. We evaluated posteroanterior and lateral chest images of 21 patients with vertebral fractures, 31 patients with lung nodules, and 10 persons acting as controls. The total number of subjects was 60 because both lesions were present in four patients. Eighteen radiologists were asked to detect vertebral fractures and nodules simultaneously on posteroanterior and lateral images. The radiologists indicated their confidence level ratings regarding the presence or absence of lesions and the most likely location of each lesion on either posteroanterior or lateral images, first without and then with CAD output. The observers' performance was evaluated with use of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and jackknife free-response ROC curves. RESULTS. With the CAD scheme, the average area under the ROC curve for detection of vertebral fractures improved from 0.906 to 0.951 (p = 0.002). That for lung nodules also improved, but the improvement was not statistically significant (0.804-0.816, p = 0.297). The figure-of-merit values obtained with the jackknife free-response ROC program improved from 0.585 to 0.680 (p < 0.001) for vertebral fractures and from 0.622 to 0.650 ( p = 0.017) for nodules, both results having statistical significance. Average sensitivity in the detection of lesions improved from 59.8% to 69.3% for vertebral fractures and from 64.9% to 67.6% for nodules. CONCLUSION. In the detection of vertebral fractures and lung nodules on chest images, diagnostic accuracy among radiologists improves with the use of CAD.
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