ReviewPneumonia (Nathan Qld.)2014
The diagnosis of pneumonia requires a chest radiograph (x-ray)-yes, no or sometimes?
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- Global Perspective ofInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
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- Enhanced Pneumonia Detection in Chest X-Rays Using Hybrid Convolutional and Vision Transformer Networks.Current medical imaging · 2025Article
- FLPneXAINet: Federated deep learning and explainable AI for improved pneumonia prediction utilizing GAN-augmented chest X-ray data.PloS one · 2025Article
- Consensus Between Radiologists, Specialists in Internal Medicine, and AI Software on Chest X-Rays in a Hospital-at-Home Service: Prospective Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Observational
- Clinical utility of bedside Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS) in the diagnosis of pneumonia in elderly patients: Comparison with clinical, -radiological and ultrasound diagnosis.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2024Article
- Utility, feasibility, and socio-demographic considerations in the diagnosis of bacterial RTI's by GC-IMS breath analysis.iScience · 2024Article
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- Optimizing Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Department.Emergency medicine clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Identification of a marker of infection in the breath using a porcine pneumonia model.JTCVS open · 2023Article
- Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for Pneumonia Classification on Pediatric Chest Radiographs.Cureus · 2023Article
- Long-Term Impact of a Smartphone App on Prescriber Adherence to Antibiotic Guidelines for Adult Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Interrupted Time-Series Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- Correspondence to the Article by Dhawan et al. "Bedside Lung Ultrasound as an Independent Tool to Diagnose Pneumonia in Comparison to Chest X-ray: An Observational Prospective Study from Intensive Care Units".Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2023Article
- Performance and Agreement When Annotating Chest X-ray Text Reports-A Preliminary Step in the Development of a Deep Learning-Based Prioritization and Detection System.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- How and when to manage respiratory infections out of hospital.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2022Review
- Agreement between the Clinical and Autopsy Results of Children Who Died with Pneumonia in Pediatric Intensive Care.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2022Article
- What is pneumonia?Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2021Review
- Improving reference standards for validation of AI-based radiography.The British journal of radiology · 2021Article
- Learning distinctive filters for COVID-19 detection from chest X-ray using shuffled residual CNN.Applied soft computing · 2021Article
- Automatic Sequence-Based Network for Lung Diseases Detection in Chest CT.Frontiers in oncology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) remains a common condition associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Outcome is improved by early recognition and rapid institution of empirical antibiotic therapy. A number of international guidelines recommend a chest radiograph (x-ray) is obtained when pneumonia is suspected; the argument forwarded is that chest radiographs are relatively inexpensive and enable pneumonia (lung consolidation) to be confirmed or excluded. But, radiographs are not available in the community setting and introduce a delay in diagnosis and treatment. For these reasons, in mild CAP treated by primary care, guidelines suggest criteria for clinical diagnosis. However, there is debate as to whether clinical features alone are sufficiently reliable to support a diagnosis of CAP with some suggesting diagnostic precision is improved by chest radiographs. Conversely, several studies have demonstrated a lack of agreement in the interpretation of chest radiographs bringing their role as the ultimate arbiter of diagnosis into question. Below we debate the diagnostic role of the humble chest radiograph in the context of suspected CAP.
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