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Title | ||
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Developing A Training Web Application For Improving The Covid-19 Diagnostic Accuracy On Chest X-Ray |
Abstract | ||
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In December 2019, a new coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV emerged in Wuhan, China. The virus has spread globally and the infection was declared pandemic in March 2020. Although most cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are mild, some of them rapidly develop acute respiratory distress syndrome. In the clinical management, chest X-rays (CXR) are essential, but the evaluation of COVID-19 CXR could be a challenge. In this context, we developed COVID-19 TRAINING, a free Web application for training on the evaluation of COVID-19 CXR. The application included 196 CXR belonging to three categories: non-pathological, pathological compatible with COVID-19, and pathological non-compatible with COVID-19. On the training screen, images were shown to the users and they chose a diagnosis among those three possibilities. At any time, users could finish the training session and be evaluated through the estimation of their diagnostic accuracy values: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and global accuracy. Images were hand-labeled by four thoracic radiologists. Average values for sensitivity, specificity, and global accuracy were .72, .64, and .68. Users who achieved better sensitivity registered less specificity (p < .0001) and those with higher specificity decreased their sensitivity (p < .0001). Users who sent more answers achieved better accuracy (p = .0002). The application COVID-19 TRAINING provides a revolutionary tool to learn the necessary skills to evaluate COVID-19 on CXR. Diagnosis training applications could provide a new original manner of evaluation for medical professionals based on their diagnostic accuracy values, and an efficient method to collect valuable data for research purposes. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2021 | 10.1007/s10278-021-00424-7 | JOURNAL OF DIGITAL IMAGING |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Chest X-ray, COVID-19, Diagnostic accuracy values, Medical application, Medical education, Training on diagnosis | Journal | 34 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
2 | 0897-1889 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 0 | 8 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| P Menéndez Fernández-Miranda | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| P Sanz Bellón | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| A Pérez Del Barrio | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| L Lloret Iglesias | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| P Solís García | 5 | 0 | 0.34 |
| F Aguilar-Gómez | 6 | 0 | 0.34 |
| D Rodríguez González | 7 | 0 | 0.34 |
| J A Vega | 8 | 0 | 0.34 |