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Quantitative Analysis of Pleural Line and B-Lines in Lung Ultrasound Images for Severity Assessment of COVID-19 Pneumonia.
IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control ; 69(1): 73-83, 2022 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1371802
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Specific patterns of lung ultrasound (LUS) images are used to assess the severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, while such assessment is mainly based on clinicians' qualitative and subjective observations. In this study, we quantitatively analyze the LUS images to assess the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia by characterizing the patterns related to the pleural line (PL) and B-lines (BLs). Twenty-seven patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, including 13 moderate cases, seven severe cases, and seven critical cases, are enrolled. Features related to the PL, including the thickness (TPL) and roughness of the PL (RPL), and the mean (MPLI) and standard deviation (SDPLI) of the PL intensities are extracted from the LUS images. Features related to the BLs, including the number (NBL), accumulated width (AWBL), attenuation coefficient (ACBL), and accumulated intensity (AIBL) of BLs, are also extracted. The correlations of these features with the disease severity are evaluated. The performances of the binary severe/non-severe classification are assessed for each feature and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers with various combinations of features as input. Several features, including the RPL, NBL, AWBL, and AIBL, show significant correlations with disease severity (all ). The classification performance is optimal using the SVM classifier using all the features as input (area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve = 0.96, sensitivity = 0.93, and specificity = 1). These findings demonstrate that the proposed method may be a promising tool for automatic grading diagnosis and follow-up of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pneumonia / COVID-19 Type of study: Cohort study / Diagnostic study / Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control Journal subject: Nuclear Medicine Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pneumonia / COVID-19 Type of study: Cohort study / Diagnostic study / Experimental Studies / Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: IEEE Trans Ultrason Ferroelectr Freq Control Journal subject: Nuclear Medicine Year: 2022 Document Type: Article