論文

査読有り 国際誌
2020年1月16日

Application of CT texture analysis to assess the localization of primary aldosteronism.

Scientific reports
  • Hiroyuki Akai
  • ,
  • Koichiro Yasaka
  • ,
  • Akira Kunimatsu
  • ,
  • Kuni Ohtomo
  • ,
  • Osamu Abe
  • ,
  • Shigeru Kiryu

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開始ページ
472
終了ページ
472
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
DOI
10.1038/s41598-020-57427-7

We performed present study to investigate whether the localization of primary aldosteronism (PA) can be predicted using quantitative texture analysis on unenhanced computed tomography (CT). Plain CT data of 82 PA patients (54 unilateral (right-sided:left-sided = 24:30), 28 bilateral) were analyzed retrospectively. After semi-automatically setting the region of interest to include the whole adrenal gland, texture analyses were performed with or without a Laplacian of Gaussian filter with various spatial scaling factors (SSFs). Logistic regression analysis was performed using the extracted histogram-based texture features to identify parameters capable of predicting excessive aldosterone production. The result of adrenal venous sampling served as gold standard in present study. As a result, logistic regression analysis indicated that the mean gray level intensity (p = 0.026), the mean value of the positive pixels (p = 0.003) in the unfiltered image, and entropy (p = 0.027) in the filtered image (SSF: 2 mm) were significant parameters. Using the model constructed by logistic regression analysis and the optimum cutoff value, the localization of PA (three multiple choices of left, right or bilateral) was determined with an accuracy of 67.1% (55/82). CT texture analysis may provide a potential avenue for less invasive prediction of the localization of PA.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-57427-7
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31949215
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6965605
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1038/s41598-020-57427-7
  • PubMed ID : 31949215
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC6965605

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