Early Identification of Small Airways Disease on Lung Cancer Screening CT: Comparison of Current Air Trapping Measures
Publication year
2012Source
Lung, 190, (2012), pp. 629-633ISSN
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Radiology
Journal title
Lung
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vol. 190
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p. 629
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p. 633
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N4i 3: Poverty-related infectious diseases ONCOL 5: Aetiology, screening and detection; ONCOL 5: Aetiology, screening and detection; Medical Imaging - Radboud University Medical Center; NCEBP 14: Cardiovascular diseases ONCOL 5: Aetiology, screening and detectionAbstract
BACKGROUND : Lung cancer screening CT scans might provide valuable information about air trapping as an early indicator of smoking-related lung disease. We studied which of the currently suggested measures is most suitable for detecting functionally relevant air trapping on low-dose computed tomography (CT) in a population of subjects with early-stage disease. METHODS : This study was ethically approved and informed consent was obtained. Three quantitative CT air trapping measures were compared against a functional reference standard in 427 male lung cancer screening participants. This reference standard for air trapping was derived from the residual volume over total lung capacity ratio (RV/TLC) beyond the 95th percentile of predicted. The following CT air trapping measures were compared: expiratory to inspiratory relative volume change of voxels with attenuation values between -860 and -950 Hounsfield Units (RVC(-860 to -950)), expiratory to inspiratory ratio of mean lung density (E/I-ratio(MLD)) and percentage of voxels below -856 HU in expiration (EXP(-856)). Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was performed and area under the ROC curve compared. RESULTS: Functionally relevant air trapping was present in 38 (8.9 \%) participants. E/I-ratio(MLD) showed the largest area under the curve (0.85, 95 \% CI 0.813-0.883), which was significantly larger than RVC(-860 to -950) (0.703, 0.657-0.746; p < 0.001) and EXP(-856) (0.798, 0.757-0.835; p = 0.002). At the optimum for sensitivity and specificity, E/I-ratio(MLD) yielded an accuracy of 81.5 \%. CONCLUSIONS: The expiratory to inspiratory ratio of mean lung density (E/I-ratio(MLD)) is most suitable for detecting air trapping on low-dose screening CT and performs significantly better than other suggested quantitative measures.
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