title: Image quality in conventional chest radiography. Evaluation using the postprocessing tool Diamond View.
abstract: The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of the postprocessing tool Diamond View (Siemens AG Medical Solutions, Germany) on image quality in conventional chest radiography. Evaluation of image quality remains a challenge in conventional radiography. Based on the European Commission quality criteria we evaluated the improvement of image quality when applying the new postprocessing tool Diamond View (Siemens AG Medical solutions, Germany) to conventional chest radiographs. Three different readers prospectively evaluated 102 digital image pairs of chest radiographs. Statistical analysis was performed with a p value <0.05 considered as significant. Images were evaluated on basis of the modified imaging Quality Criteria by the Commission of the European Communities. Each of the 11 image quality criteria was evaluated separately using a five point classification. Statistical analysis showed an overall tendency for improved image quality for Diamond View (DV) for all criteria. Significant differences could be found in most of the criteria. In conclusion DV improves image quality in conventional chest radiographs.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Basel, Department of Radiology, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland. niemannt@uhbs.ch
authors.forename: Tilo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Niemann
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reisinger
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rau
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruis-Lopez
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bongartz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods; D011857:Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric