Improved chest disease detection with scanning equalization radiography.
The efficacy of chest disease detection with scanning equalization radiography (SER) was evaluated in a clinical study of 95 patients: 51 normals and 44 with abnormal chest radiographs. A conventional and an SER image of each patient were interpreted independently by four radiologists. The increased numbers of true positives (3%) and true negatives (9%) when the SER images were interpreted were statistically significant. There was also a reduced number of false positives (7%) with SER. This improved disease detection was noted by each of the radiologists and led to more frequent agreement (11%) of the correct interpretation among the radiologists.
D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D006801:Humans; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods*; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014963:X-Ray Intensifying Screens