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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING
卷 2012, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2012/734734
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- Spanish Ministry of Health [PI070751]
- RTICC [RD06/0020/0066]
- Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry under MICINN [PSS 0100000-2008-2, TEC2005-04732, DPI2009-14115-C03-03, MINECODPI201238090-C03-02]
Objective. To define the sensitivity of microcomputed tomography- (micro-CT-) derived descriptors for the quantification of lung damage caused by elastase instillation. Materials and Methods. The lungs of 30 elastase treated and 30 control A/J mice were analyzed 1, 6, 12, and 24 hours and 7 and 17 days after elastase instillation using (i) breath-hold-gated micro-CT, (ii) pulmonary function tests (PFTs), (iii) RT-PCR for RNA cytokine expression, and (iv) histomorphometry. For the latter, an automatic, parallel software toolset was implemented that computes the airspace enlargement descriptors: mean linear intercept (L-m) and weighted means of airspace diameters (D-0, D-1, and D-2). A Support Vector Classifier was trained and tested based on three nonhistological descriptors using D-2 as ground truth. Results. D-2 detected statistically significant differences (P < 0.01) between the groups at all time points. Furthermore, D-2 at 1 hour (24 hours) was significantly lower (P < 0.01) than D-2 at 24 hours (7 days). The classifier trained on the micro-CT- derived descriptors achieves an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.95 well above the others (PFTS AUC = 0.71; cytokine AUC = 0.88). Conclusion. Micro-CT-derived descriptors are more sensitive than the other methods compared, to detect in vivo early signs of the disease.
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