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Anders Tingberg

Associate professor

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Investigation of image components affecting the detection of lung nodules in digital chest radiography

Author

  • M. Båth
  • M. Håkansson
  • S. Börjesson
  • C. Hoeschen
  • O. Tischenko
  • F.O. Bochud
  • F.R. Verdun
  • G. Ullman
  • S. Kheddache
  • Anders Tingberg
  • L.G. Månsson
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Summary, in English

The aim of this work was to investigate and quantify the effects of system noise, nodule location, anatomical noise and anatomical background on the detection of lung nodules in different regions of the chest x-ray. Simulated lung nodules of diameter 10 mm but with varying detail contrast were randomly positioned in four different kinds of images: 1) clinical images collected with a 200 speed CR system, 2) images containing only system noise (including quantum noise) at the same level as the clinical images, 3) clinical images with removed anatomical noise, 4) artificial images with similar power spectrum as the clinical images but random phase spectrum. An ROC study was conducted with 5 observers. The detail contrast needed to obtain an Az of 0.80, C0.8, was used as measure of detectability. Five different regions of the chest x-ray were investigated separately. The C0.8 of the system noise images ranged from only 2% (the hilar regions) to 20% (the lateral pulmonary regions) of those of the clinical images. Compared with the original clinical images, the C0.8 was 16% lower for the de-noised clinical images and 71% higher for the random phase images, respectively, averaged over all five regions. In conclusion, regarding the detection of lung nodules with a diameter of 10 mm, the system noise is of minor importance at clinically relevant dose levels. The removal of anatomical noise and other noise sources uncorrelated from image to image leads to somewhat better detection, but the major component disturbing the detection is the overlapping of recognizable structures, which are, however, the main aspect of an x-ray image.

Department/s

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

231-242

Publication/Series

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5749

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

Conference name

Medical Imaging 2005: Image Perception, Observer Performance, and Technology Assessment

Conference date

2005-02-15

Conference place

San Diego, CA, United States

Status

Published

Research group

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 9780819457233