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ArticleProceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging2016

DERIVATION OF A TEST STATISTIC FOR EMPHYSEMA QUANTIFICATION.

Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-Ferrero, George Washko, Farbod N Rahaghi, Maria J Ledesma-Carbayo, R San José Estépar

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Article in Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Gonzalo Vegas-Sanchez-FerreroApplied Chest Imaging Lab., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Biomedical Image Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & CIBER-BBN, Madrid, Spain.
George WashkoApplied Chest Imaging Lab., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Farbod N RahaghiApplied Chest Imaging Lab., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Maria J Ledesma-CarbayoBiomedical Image Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & CIBER-BBN, Madrid, Spain.
R San José EstéparApplied Chest Imaging Lab., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Funding

The clinical impact of pulmonary vascular remodeling in smokersR01HL116473 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SAN JOSE ESTEPAR, RAUL, WASHKO, GEORGE R · 2013 to 2021
$5.0M
Airway Inspector: a chest imaging biomarker software platform for COPDR01HL116931 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SAN JOSE ESTEPAR, RAUL · 2013 to 2017
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS L30 HL120208NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL116473NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL116931
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Abstract

Density masking is the de-facto quantitative imaging phenotype for emphysema that is widely used by the clinical community. Density masking defines the burden of emphysema by a fixed threshold, usually between -910 HU and -950 HU, that has been experimentally validated with histology. In this work, we formalized emphysema quantification by means of statistical inference. We show that a non-central Gamma is a good approximation for the local distribution of image intensities for normal and emphysema tissue. We then propose a test statistic in terms of the sample mean of a truncated non-central Gamma random variable. Our results show that this approach is well-suited for the detection of emphysema and superior to standard density masking. The statistical method was tested in a dataset of 1337 samples obtained from 9 different scanner models in subjects with COPD. Results showed an increase of 17% when compared to the density masking approach, and an overall accuracy of 94.09%.

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Emphysema quantificationnon-central Gammastatistical testtruncated random variable

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PMID27974952
PMCPMC5153356

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