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Models of Bone Metastasis
Published on: September 4, 2012
CT temporal subtraction method for detection of sclerotic bone metastasis in the thoracolumbar spine
Midori Ueno1, Takatoshi Aoki1, Seiichi Murakami2
1Department of Radiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health School of Medicine, Japan.
Purpose:
To assess the effectiveness of a CT temporal subtraction (TS) method on radiologists' performance in sclerotic metastasis detection in the thoracolumbar spine.
Materials And Methods:
20 pairs (current and previous CTs) of standard-dose CT and their TS images in patients with sclerotic bone metastasis and 20 pairs (current and previous CTs) of those in patients without bone metastasis were used for an observer performance study. A total of 135 lesions were identified as the reference standard of actionable lesions (sclerotic metastasis newly appeared or increased in size or in attenuation). 4 attending radiologists and 4 radiology residents participated in this observer study. Ratings and locations of "lesions" determined by the observers were utilized for assessing the statistical significance of differences between radiologists' performances without and with the CT-TS images in JAFROC analysis. The statistical significance of differences in the reviewing time was determined by a two-tailed paired t-test.
Results:
The average figure-of-merit (FOM) values for all but one radiologist increased to a statistically significant degree, from 0.856 without the CT-TS images to 0.884 with the images (P = .037). The average sensitivity for detecting the actionable lesions was improved from 60.7 % to 72.5% at a false-positive rate of 0.15 per case by use of the CT-TS images. The average reading time with CT-TS images was significantly shorter than that without (150.6 s vs. 166.5 s, P = .004).
Conclusion:
The use of CT-TS would improve the observer performance for the detection of the sclerotic bone metastasis in the thoracolumbar spine.
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