Automated quantification of pulmonary emphysema from computed tomography scans: comparison of variation and correlation of common measures in a large cohort

Brad M. Keller; Anthony P. Reeves; David F. Yankelevitz; Claudia I. Henschke

doi:10.1117/12.844013

9 March 2010 Automated quantification of pulmonary emphysema from computed tomography scans: comparison of variation and correlation of common measures in a large cohort

Brad M. Keller, Anthony P. Reeves, David F. Yankelevitz, Claudia I. Henschke

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Proceedings Volume 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis; 76241Q (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844013
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The purpose of this work was to retrospectively investigate the variation of standard indices of pulmonary emphysema from helical computed tomographic (CT) scans as related to inspiration differences over a 1 year interval and determine the strength of the relationship between these measures in a large cohort. 626 patients that had 2 scans taken at an interval of 9 months to 15 months (μ: 381 days, σ: 31 days) were selected for this work. All scans were acquired at a 1.25mm slice thickness using a low dose protocol. For each scan, the emphysema index (EI), fractal dimension (FD), mean lung density (MLD), and 15th percentile of the histogram (HIST) were computed. The absolute and relative changes for each measure were computed and the empirical 95% confidence interval was reported both in non-normalized and normalized scales. Spearman correlation coefficients are computed between the relative change in each measure and relative change in inspiration between each scan-pair, as well as between each pair-wise combination of the four measures. EI varied on a range of -10.5 to 10.5 on a non-normalized scale and -15 to 15 on a normalized scale, with FD and MLD showing slightly larger but comparable spreads, and HIST having a much larger variation. MLD was found to show the strongest correlation to inspiration change (r=0.85, p<0.001), and EI, FD, and HIST to have moderately strong correlation (r = 0.61-0.74, p<0.001). Finally, HIST showed very strong correlation to EI (r = 0.92, p<0.001), while FD showed the least strong relationship to EI (r = 0.82, p<0.001). This work shows that emphysema index and fractal dimension have the least variability overall of the commonly used measures of emphysema and that they offer the most unique quantification of emphysema relative to each other.

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Brad M. Keller, Anthony P. Reeves, David F. Yankelevitz, and Claudia I. Henschke "Automated quantification of pulmonary emphysema from computed tomography scans: comparison of variation and correlation of common measures in a large cohort", Proc. SPIE 7624, Medical Imaging 2010: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, 76241Q (9 March 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.844013

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Emphysema

Computed tomography

Fractal analysis

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