Fariba Zarei, Payam Jannatdoust, Siamak Malekpour, Mahshad Razaghi, Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Vani Varadhan Chatterjee, Amirbahador Abbasi, Rezvan Ravanfar Haghighi
INTRODUCTION: Chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT) scans can accidentally reveal pulmonary nodules. Malignant and benign pulmonary nodules can be difficult to distinguish without specific imaging features, such as calcification, necrosis, and contrast enhancement. However, these lesions may exhibit different image texture characteristics which cannot be assessed visually. Thus, a computer-assisted quantitative method like histogram analysis (HA) of Hounsfield unit (HU) values can improve diagnostic accuracy, reducing the need for invasive biopsy...
May 2024: Clinical Respiratory Journal