Automated computer screening of chest radiographs for pneumoconiosis.
The results of two complementary approaches for performing diagnostic screening for the presence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) from the routine posterior-anterior chest radiograph are presented. The first is a digital approach utilizing the measurement of image texture, while the second uses hybrid optical-digital methods involving the optical Fourier transform. Both approaches yield classification results comparable to experienced radiologists.
D003032:Coal Mining; D003201:Computers; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011009:Pneumoconiosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography