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Article Dans Une Revue Urological Research Année : 2009

Estimation of urinary stone composition by automated processing of CT images.

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The objective of this article was developing an automated tool for routine clinical practice to estimate urinary stone composition from CT images based on the density of all constituent voxels. A total of 118 stones for which the composition had been determined by infrared spectroscopy were placed in a helical CT scanner. A standard acquisition, low-dose and high-dose acquisitions were performed. All voxels constituting each stone were automatically selected. A dissimilarity index evaluating variations of density around each voxel was created in order to minimize partial volume effects: stone composition was established on the basis of voxel density of homogeneous zones. Stone composition was determined in 52% of cases. Sensitivities for each compound were: uric acid: 65%, struvite: 19%, cystine: 78%, carbapatite: 33.5%, calcium oxalate dihydrate: 57%, calcium oxalate monohydrate: 66.5%, brushite: 75%. Low-dose acquisition did not lower the performances (P < 0.05). This entirely automated approach eliminates manual intervention on the images by the radiologist while providing identical performances including for low-dose protocols.
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hal-00416159 , version 1 (12-09-2009)

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Grégoire Chevreau, Jocelyne Troccaz, Pierre Conort, Raphaëlle Renard-Penna, Alain Mallet, et al.. Estimation of urinary stone composition by automated processing of CT images.. Urological Research, 2009, 37 (5), pp.241-245. ⟨10.1007/s00240-009-0195-3⟩. ⟨hal-00416159⟩
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