Comparison of chest CT severity scoring systems for COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare the diagnostic performance and inter-observer agreement of five different CT chest severity scoring systems for COVID-19 to find the most precise one with the least interpretation time.

Methods and materials

This retrospective study included 85 patients (54 male and 31 female) with PCR-confirmed COVID-19. They underwent CT to assess the severity of pulmonary involvement. Three readers were asked to assess the pulmonary abnormalities and score the severity using five different systems, including chest CT severity score (CT-SS), chest CT score, total severity score (TSS), modified total severity score (m-TSS), and 3-level chest CT severity score. Time consumption on reporting of each system was calculated.

Results

Two hundred fifty-five observations w

SUBMITTER: Elmokadem AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8760133 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature