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A 3D Digital Model for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Nodules
Published on: May 19, 2023
Mixture distribution analysis of a computer assisted diagnostic method for the evaluation of pulmonary nodules on
Justin W Kung1, Sumiaki Matsumoto, Ichiro Hasegawa
1Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, 3600 Science Center, Suite 370, 3600 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Rationale And Objectives:
To compare the effectiveness of a new computational scheme for pulmonary nodule detection in computed tomography images against human observers.
Materials And Methods:
The study involved evaluation of 81 potential nodules by four radiologists. Each radiologist separately evaluated the potential nodules and provided a confidence level for the presence of pulmonary nodules. Their performance was compared with that of the new computational scheme by mixture distribution analysis.
Results:
Mixture distribution analysis of the results of the four radiologists demonstrated a relative proportion agreement of 0.84. The kappa statistic was used to compare the agreement of the computational scheme with the results of the four radiologists. A kappa value of .65 (se = .11) was shown to be significantly different from chance (P = .99).
Conclusion:
The new computational scheme correlates well with the radiologists' subjective rankings of pulmonary nodules on computed tomography scans and may prove a useful tool in the evaluation of algorithms for the screening and diagnosis of lung cancer.
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