Traumatic pulmonary pathology measured with computed tomography and a semiautomated analytic method

Clin Imaging. 2008 Sep-Oct;32(5):346-54. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.02.026.

Abstract

The goal of this study is to develop a controlled approach to quantifying the amount of lung damage after blunt chest trauma. The presented method is used to analyze computed tomography scans and to assess patients' risk for developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). When used to predict which patients were at risk for ARDS, the method presented in this study had a sensitivity of 57% and a specificity of 100%.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Automation
  • Cohort Studies
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Injury Severity Score
  • Lung Injury / complications
  • Lung Injury / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Injury / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Pulmonary Gas Exchange
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted*
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / epidemiology
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome / etiology
  • Respiratory Function Tests
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / complications
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / diagnostic imaging*
  • Young Adult