Traumatic pulmonary pathology measured with computed tomography and a semiautomated analytic method.
The goal of this study is to develop a controlled approach to quantifying the amount of lung damage after blunt chest trauma. The presented method is used to analyze computed tomography scans and to assess patients' risk for developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). When used to predict which patients were at risk for ARDS, the method presented in this study had a sensitivity of 57% and a specificity of 100%.
Daly
Melissa
M
Virginia Tech/Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Center for Injury Biomechanics, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Miller
Preston R
PR
Carr
J Jeffrey
JJ
Gayzik
F Scott
FS
Hoth
J Jason
JJ
Meredith
J Wayne
JW
Stitzel
Joel D
JD