• Department of Radiology, Guangdong Province Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong 528000, P. R. China;
ZHU Liangfei, Email: zhuliang.fei@163.com
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Objective  To explore the application value of artificial intelligence (AI) pulmonary artery assisted diagnosis software for suspected pulmonary embolism patients. Methods  The data of 199 patients who were clinically suspected of pulmonary embolism and underwent pulmonary artery CT angiography (CTA) from June 2016 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. Images of pulmonary artery CTA diagnosed by radiologists with different experiences and judged by senior radiologists were compared with the analysis results of AI assisted diagnostic software for pulmonary artery CTA, to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of this software and low, medium, and senior radiologists for pulmonary embolism. The agreement of pulmonary embolism based on pulmonary artery CTA between the AI software and radiologists with different experiences was evaluated using Kappa test. Results  The agreement of the AI software and the evaluation of pulmonary embolism lesions by senior radiologists based on pulmonary artery CTA was high (Kappa=0.913, P<0.001), while the diagnostic results of pulmonary artery CTA AI software was good after judged by senior radiologists based on pulmonary artery CTA (Kappa=0.755, P<0.001). Conclusions  The AI software based on pulmonary artery CTA diagnosis of pulmonary embolism has good consistency with diagnostic images of radilogists, and can save a lot of reconstruction and diagnostic time. It has the value of daily diagnosis work and worthy of clinical promotion.

Citation: WU Weiqiang, ZHU Liangfei, SHEN Lirong, OU Yu, LIU Hailun. Effectiveness of pulmonary artery CT angiography and pulmonary embolism findings based on artificial intelligence. Chinese Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2024, 23(1): 24-29. doi: 10.7507/1671-6205.202308014 Copy

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