Similarity of chest X-ray and thermal imaging of focal pneumonia: a randomised proof of concept study at a large urban teaching hospital.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To assess the diagnostic accuracy of thermal imaging (TI) in the setting of focal consolidative pneumonia with chest X-ray (CXR) as the gold standard. SETTING:A large, 973-bed teaching hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS:47 patients enrolled, 15 in a training set, 32 in a test set. Age range 10 months to 82 years (median=50 years). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Subjects received CXR with subsequent TI within 4 hours of each other. CXR and TI were assessed in blinded random order. Presence of focal opacity (pneumonia) on CXR, the outcome parameter, was recorded. For TI, presence of area(s) of increased heat (pneumonia) was recorded. Fisher's exact test was used to assess the significance of the correlations of positive findings in the same anatomical region. RESULTS:With TI co

SUBMITTER: Wang LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5780734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature