Pulmonary Nodules: Volume Repeatability at Multidetector CT Lung Cancer Screening
| Autor: | Carlo Morosi, Elena Ferri, L F Frigerio, Alfonso Marchianò, Enrico Civelli, Salvatore Lo Vullo, Tiziana Camerini, Nicola Sverzellati, Giuseppe Di Tolla, Luigi Mariani, Elisa Calabrò, Ugo Pastorino, Francesco Tafaro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms law.invention Randomized controlled trial law medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Lung cancer Aged Analysis of Variance Lung business.industry Respiratory disease Reproducibility of Results Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Cancer Nodule (medicine) Middle Aged Institutional review board medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Italy Female Radiology medicine.symptom Tomography X-Ray Computed business Nuclear medicine Algorithms Lung cancer screening |
| Zdroj: | Radiology. 251:919-925 |
| ISSN: | 1527-1315 0033-8419 |
| DOI: | 10.1148/radiol.2513081313 |
| Popis: | To assess in vivo volumetric repeatability of an automated software algorithm in pulmonary nodules detected during a lung cancer screening trial.This study was approved by an institutional review board. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. Data were collected from the Multicentric Italian Lung Detection project, a randomized controlled lung cancer screening trial. The first 1236 consecutive baseline computed tomographic (CT) studies performed at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori of Milan were evaluated. Among the enrolled participants, those who underwent repeat low-dose CT after 3 months and had at least one indeterminate nodule with a volume of more than 60 mm(3) (diameter of 4.8 mm or greater) were considered. Nonsolid, part-solid, and pleural-based nodules were excluded from this study. A descriptive analysis was performed by calculating means and standard deviations of nodule volumes at three assessment times (at baseline and 3 and 12 months later). The volume measurement repeatability was determined by using the approach described by Bland and Altman.One hundred one subjects (70 men, 31 women; mean age, 58 years) with 233 eligible nodules (mean volume, 98.3 mm(3); range, 5-869 mm(3)) were identified. The 95% confidence interval for difference in measured volumes was in the range of +/-27%. About 70% of measurements had a relative difference in nodule volume of less than 10%. No malignant lesions were registered during the follow-up of these subjects.Semiautomatic volumetry is sufficiently accurate and repeatable and may be useful in assisting with lung nodule management in a lung cancer screening program. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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