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A 3D Digital Model for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Nodules
Published on: May 19, 2023
The study of diagnostic accuracy of chest nodules by using different compression methods
Liang Zhigang1, L I Kuncheng, Zhang Jinghong
1Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053, China. zg_liang@yahoo.com.cn
Background:
The purpose of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of small nodules in the chest by using different compression methods.
Method:
Two radiologists with 5 years experience twice interpreted 39 chest images by using lossless and lossy compression methods. The time interval was 3 weeks. Each time the radiologists interpreted one kind of compressed images. The image browser used the Unisight software provided by Atlastiger Company in Shanghai. The interpreting results were analyzed by the ROCKIT software and the ROC curves were painted by Excel 2002.
Results:
In studies of receiver operating characteristics for scoring the presence or absence of nodules, the images with lossy compression method showed no statistical difference as compared with the images with lossless compression method.
Conclusion:
The diagnostic accuracy of chest nodules by using the lossless and lossy compression methods had no significant difference, we could use the lossy compression method to transmit and archive the chest images with nodules.
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