Optimal threshold in CT quantification of emphysema

European Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 975-984

  Wang, Zhimin ^a   Gu, Suicheng ^a   Leader, Joseph K ^a   Kundu, Shinjini ^a   Tedrow, John R ^a   Sciurba, Frank C ^a   Gur, David ^a   Siegfried, Jill M ^a   Pu, Jiantao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Computed tomography; Density mask; Lobe segmentation; Pulmonary emphysema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG LOBE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84878614909     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-012-2683-z     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Mao JT, Goldin JG, Dermand J, Ibrahim G, Brown MS, Emerick A, McNitt-Gray MF, Gjertson DW, Estrada F, Tashkin DP, Roth MD (2002) A pilot study of all-trans-retinoic acid for the treatment of human emphysema. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:718-723
2. Müller NL, Staples CA, Miller RR, Abboud RT (1988) "Density mask". An objective method to quantitate emphysema using computed tomography. Chest 94:782-787
3. Gevenois PA, de Maertelaer V, De Vuyst P, Zanen J, Yernault JC (1995) Comparison of computed density and macroscopic morphometry in pulmonary emphysema. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 152:653-657
4. Camiciottoli G, Bartolucci M, Maluccio NM, Moroni C, Mascalchi M, Giuntini C, Pistolesi M (2006) Spirometrically gated high-resolution CT findings in COPD: lung attenuation vs lung function and dyspnea severity. Chest 129:558-564
5. Marsh S, Aldington S, Williams MV, Nowitz M, Kingzett-Taylor A, Weatherall M, Shirtcliffe P, Pritchard A, Beasley R (2006) Physiological associations of computerized tomography lung density: a factor analysis. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis 1:181-187
6. Madani A, Van Muylem A, Gevenois PA (2010) Pulmonary emphysema: effect of lung volume on objective quantification at thin-section CT. Radiology 257:260-268
7. Diaz AA, Bartholmai B, San José Estépar R, Ross J, Matsuoka S, Yamashiro T, Hatabu H, Reilly JJ, Silverman EK, Washko GR (2010) Relationship of emphysema and airway disease assessed by CT to exercise capacity in COPD. Respir Med 104:1145-1151
8. Madani A, De Maertelaer V, Zanen J, Gevenois PA (2007) Pulmonary emphysema: radiation dose and section thickness at multidetector CT quantification - comparison with Macroscopic and Microscopic Morphometry. Radiology 243:250-257
9. Stavngaard T, Shaker SB, Dirksen A (2006) Quantitative assessment of emphysema distribution in smokers and patients with alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency. Respir Med 100:94-100
10. Saitoh T, Koba H, Shijubo N, Tanaka H, Sugaya F (2000) Lobar distribution of emphysema in computed tomographic densitometric analysis. Invest Radiol 35:235-243
11. Revel MP, Faivre JB, Remy-Jardin M, Deken V, Duhamel A, Marquette CH, Tacelli N, Bakai AM, Remy J (2008) Automated lobar quantification of emphysema in patients with severe COPD. Eur Radiol 18:2723-2730
12. Brown MS, Kim HJ, Abtin FG, Strange C, Galperin-Aizenberg M, Pais R, Da Costa IG, Ordookhani A, Chong D, Ni C, McNitt-Gray MF, Tashkin DP, Goldin JG (2012) Emphysema lung lobe volume reduction: effects on the ipsilateral and contralateral lobes. Eur Radiol 22:1547-1555
13. Matsuo K, Iwano S, Okada T, Koike W, Naganawa S (2012) 3D-CT Lung volumetry using multidetector row computed tomography: pulmonary function of each anatomic lobe. J Thorac Imaging 27:164-170
14. Mohamed Hoesein FA, van Rikxoort E, van Ginneken B, de Jong PA, Prokop M, Lammers JW, Zanen P (2012) Computed tomography-quantified emphysema distribution is associated with lung function decline. Eur Respir J 40:844-850
15. Rabe KF, Hurd S, Anzueto A, Barnes PJ, Buist SA, Calverley P, Fukuchi Y, Jenkins C, Rodriguez-Roisin R, van Weel C, Zielinski J (2007) Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: GOLD executive summary. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:532-555
16. Zhang J, Bruesewitz MR, Bartholmai BJ, McCollough CH (2008) Selection of appropriate computed tomographic image reconstruction algorithms for a quantitative multicenter trial of diffuse lung disease. J Comput Assist Tomogr 32:233-237
17. Pu J, Roos J, Yi CA, Napel S, Rubin GD, Paik DS (2008) Adaptive border marching algorithm: automatic lung segmentation on chest CT images. Comput Med Imaging Graph 32:452-462
18. Pu J, Leader JK, Zheng B, Knollmann F, Fuhrman C, Sciurba FC, Gur D (2009) A computational geometry approach to automated pulmonary fissure segmentation in CT examinations. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 28:710-719
19. Pu J, Zheng B, Leader JK, Fuhrman C, Knollmann F, Klym A, Gur D (2009) Pulmonary lobe segmentation in CT examinations using implicit surface fitting. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 28:1986-1996
20. Nakano Y, Muro S, Sakai H, Hirai T, Chin K, Tsukino M, Nishimura K, Itoh H, Paré PD, Hogg JC, Mishima M (2000) Computed tomographic measurements of airway dimensions and emphysema in smokers. Correlation with lung function. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 162:1102-1108
21. Park KJ, Bergin CJ, Clausen JL (1999) Quantitation of emphysema with three-dimensional CT densitometry: comparison with two-dimensional analysis, visual emphysema scores, and pulmonary function test results. Radiology 211:541-547
22. Tanabe N, Muro S, Hirai T, Oguma T, Terada K, Marumo S, Kinose D, Ogawa E, Hoshino Y, Mishima M (2011) Impact of exacerbations on emphysema progression in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 183:1653-1659
23. Camp PG, Coxson HO, Levy RD, Pillai SG, Anderson W, Vestbo J, Kennedy SM, Silverman EK, Lomas DA, Paré PD (2009) Sex differences in emphysema and airway disease in smokers. Chest 136:1480-1488
24. Morgan MD (1992) Detection and quantification of pulmonary emphysema by computed tomography: a window of opportunity. Thorax 47:1001-1004
25. Yuan R, Mayo JR, Hogg JC, Paré PD, McWilliams AM, Lam S, Coxson HO (2007) The effects of radiation dose and CT manufacturer on measurements of lung densitometry. Chest 132:617-623
26. Pescarolo M, Sverzellati N, Verduri A, Chetta A, Marangio E, De Filippo M, Olivieri D, Zompatori M (2008) How much do GOLD stages reflect CT abnormalities in COPD patients? Radiol Med 113:817-829
27. Mohamed Hoesein FA, Zanen P, van Ginneken B, van Klaveren RJ, Lammers JW (2011) Association of the transfer coefficient of the lung for carbon monoxide with emphysema progression in male smokers. Eur Respir J 38:1012-1018
28. Mets OM, Murphy K, Zanen P, Gietema HA, Lammers JW, van Ginneken B, Prokop M, de Jong PA (2012) The relationship between lung function impairment and quantitative computed tomography in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Eur Radiol 22:120-128
29. Gierada DS, Bierhals AJ, Choong CK, Bartel ST, Ritter JH, Das NA, Hong C, Pilgram TK, Bae KT, Whiting BR, Woods JC, Hogg JC, Lutey BA, Battafarano RJ, Cooper JD, Meyers BF, Patterson GA (2010) Effects of CT section thickness and reconstruction kernel on emphysema quantification relationship to the magnitude of the CT emphysema index. Acad Radiol 17:146-156
30. Boedeker KL, McNitt-Gray MF, Rogers SR, Truong DA, Brown MS, Gjertson DW, Goldin JG (2004) Emphysema: effect of reconstruction algorithm on CT imaging measures. Radiology 232:295-301