Automated quantification of pneumothorax in CT (Q454730)

Summary: An automated, computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) algorithm for the quantification of pneumothoraces from multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) images has been developed. Algorithm performance was evaluated through comparison to manual segmentation by expert radiologists. A combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional processing techniques was incorporated to reduce required processing time by two-thirds (as compared to similar techniques). Volumetric measurements on relative pneumothorax size were obtained and the overall performance of the automated method shows an average error of just below 1\%.