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2021
THE EVALUATION OF THE LEVEL OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO BLIND, NON-EXPERIENCED OBSERVERS IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE ECHOGENICITY INDEX IN ULTRASOUND B-IMAGES OF THE THYROID GLAND
BLAHUTA, Jiří, Jan LAVRINČÍK, Lukáš PAVLÍK, Zuzana REPASKÁ, Tomáš SOUKUP et. al.
Basic information
Original name
THE EVALUATION OF THE LEVEL OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN TWO BLIND, NON-EXPERIENCED OBSERVERS IN THE ANALYSIS OF THE ECHOGENICITY INDEX IN ULTRASOUND B-IMAGES OF THE THYROID GLAND
Authors
BLAHUTA, Jiří (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan LAVRINČÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lukáš PAVLÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Zuzana REPASKÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš SOUKUP
Edition
Hradec Králové, MMK 2021, Mezinárodní Masarykova konference pro doktorandy a mladé vědecké pracovníky, p. 957-964, 8 pp. 2021
Publisher
Magnanimitas, Hradec Králové
Other information
Type of outcome
Stať ve sborníku
Field of Study
10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
electronic version available online
Organization unit
Moravian Business College Olomouc
Keywords in English
thyroid gland ultrasound; ultrasound image processing; echogenicity index; Bimages; endocrinology ultrasound
V originále
Recently, the authors have published studies focused on the echogenicity index analyzed in ultrasound B-images using own software designed to analysis of ultrasound B-images, developed since 2012. The studies have been focused on selected brain structures and the echogenicity index was firstly used in analysis of atherosclerotic plaques using B-imaging. The almost perfect reproducibility between two blind observers was confirmed. In this study focused on B-imaging of the thyroid gland, the authors analyze the reproducibility of the echogenicity index in a free-hand Region of Interest of the thyroid gland tumor. Overall, 102 images were processed. Both of the observers are non-experienced in sonography; the main goal of this study is to ascertain the level of agreement between results when the same ROI is used. The results repeatedly ascertained the almost perfect level of agreement of the echogenicity index for ultrasound B-images analysis in different structures. The correlation coefficient r=0.98 and the average absolute error between echogenicity index values is under 15 %. In this phase, the clinical point of view is not evaluated; only the reproducibility of the echogenicity index is judged. The echogenicity index will be analyzed to see if there is any relation between the echogenicity index and tumor type. All achieved results will be checked by an experienced sonographer for future clinical studies
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