Automated b-line scoring on thoracic sonography

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2185-2190

  Brattain, Laura J ^a   Telfer, Brian A ^a   Liteplo, Andrew S ^b   Noble, Vicki E ^b  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

B lines; Diagnostic assistant; Extravascular lung water; Pulmonary edema; Thoracic sonography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; B-LINES; DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANT; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATERS; INTERSTITIAL FLUIDS; PORTABLE SONOGRAPHY; PULMONARY EDEMA;

ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; B-LINES; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANT; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EXTRAVASCULAR FLUID; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THORACIC SONOGRAPHY; THORAX; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

B-LINES; DIAGNOSTIC ASSISTANT; EXTRAVASCULAR LUNG WATER; PULMONARY EDEMA; THORACIC SONOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THORAX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890943485     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.32.12.2185     Document Type: Article

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