ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Evaluation of the Usefulness of CO-RADS for Chest CT in Patients Suspected of Having COVID-19.
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- Inter-observer Variability in the Analysis of CO-RADS Classification for COVID-19 Patients.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Diagnostic performance of standardized typical CT findings for COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Insights into imaging · 2023Article
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- Diagnostic Performance of Antigen Rapid Diagnostic Tests, Chest Computed Tomography, and Lung Point-of-Care-Ultrasonography for SARS-CoV-2 Compared with RT-PCR Testing: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Streamlining Patient Management of Suspected COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department: Incorporation of Pulmonary CT Angiography into the Triaging Algorithm.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Comparison of CO-RADS Scores Based on Visual and Artificial Intelligence Assessments in a Non-Endemic Area.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Effect of lateral decubitus acquisition in accuracy and lung severity estimation of chest computed tomography in children with suspected COVID-19.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2022Article
- The role of chest imaging in the diagnosis, management, and monitoring of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).Insights into imaging · 2021Review
- Detection and characterization of COVID-19 findings in chest CT: Feasibility and applicability of an AI-based software tool.Medicine · 2021Observational
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to use the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Reporting and Data System (CO-RADS) to evaluate the chest computed tomography (CT) images of patients suspected of having COVID-19, and to investigate its diagnostic performance and interobserver agreement. The Dutch Radiological Society developed CO-RADS as a diagnostic indicator for assessing suspicion of lung involvement of COVID-19 on a scale of 1 (very low) to 5 (very high). We investigated retrospectively 154 adult patients with clinically suspected COVID-19, between April and June 2020, who underwent chest CT and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). The patients' average age was 61.3 years (range, 21-93), 101 were male, and 76 were RT-PCR positive. Using CO-RADS, four radiologists evaluated the chest CT images. Sensitivity, specificity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) were calculated. Interobserver agreement was calculated using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) by comparing the individual reader's score to the median of the remaining three radiologists. The average sensitivity was 87.8% (range, 80.2-93.4%), specificity was 66.4% (range, 51.3-84.5%), and AUC was 0.859 (range, 0.847-0.881); there was no significant difference between the readers (
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