ArticleJournal of clinical monitoring and computing2020
The artificial count of artifacts for thoracic ultrasound: what is the clinical usefulness?
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- A High Number of Ring-Down Artefacts and an Irregular Pleural Surface Are More Commonly Observed in WHWTs Suffering from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Compared to Control WHWTs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- The Role of Transthoracic Ultrasound in the Study of Interstitial Lung Diseases: High-Resolution Computed Tomography Versus Ultrasound Patterns: Our Preliminary Experience.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A Pictorial Review of the Role of Imaging in the Detection, Management, Histopathological Correlations, and Complications of COVID-19 Pneumonia.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Lung Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia: Not Always and Not Only What Is COVID-19 "Glitters".Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Pneumonia: The Great Ultrasonography Mimicker.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Chest Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: The Complementary Role of Thoraci Ultrasound.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia in pregnant women: can we rely on lung ultrasound?American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2020Article
- The Role of Transthoracic Ultrasound in the novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): A Reappraisal. Information and Disinformation: Is There Still Place for a Scientific Debate?Frontiers in medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many works in the literature have shown that the increase in the number of B lines is a nonspecific sign of underlying pulmonary disease. Actually these artifacts are the result of a physical effect of ultrasound between the chest wall and the pulmonary air. Nevertheless the intra- and inter-operator variability in B-lines counting does not only reside only in the count itself but depends also on the type and frequency of the probe used, as well as the ultrasound scan machine setting and the patient's chest shape. In our opinion, proposing a software algorithm to count lines B seems like an unproductive effort.
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