Temporal changes of COVID-19 pneumonia by mass evaluation using CT: a retrospective multi-center study

  • Wang C
  • Huang P
  • Wang L
  • et al.
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has widely spread worldwide and caused a pandemic. Chest CT has been found to play an important role in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19. However, quantitatively assessing temporal changes of COVID-19 pneumonia over time using CT has still not been fully elucidated. The purpose of this study was to perform a longitudinal study to quantitatively assess temporal changes of COVID-19 pneumonia. Methods: This retrospective and multi-center study included patients with laboratory-confirmed COVI D-19 infection from 16 hospitals between January 19 and March 27, 2020. Mass was used as an approach to quantitatively measure dynamic changes of pulmonary involvement in patients with COVID-19. Artificial intelligence (AI) was employed as image segmentation and analysis tool for calculating the mass of pulmonary involvement. Results: A total of 581 confirmed patients with 1,309 chest cr examinations were included in this study. The median age was 46 years (IQR, 35-55; range, 4-87 years), and 311 (53.5%) patients were male. The mass of pulmonary involvement peaked on day 10 after the onset of initial symptoms. Furthermore, the mass of pulmonary involvement of older patients (>45 years) was significantly severer (P<0.001) and peaked later (day 11 vs. day 8) than that of younger patients (

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Wang, C., Huang, P., Wang, L., Shen, Z., Lin, B., Wang, Q., … Zhang, M. (2020). Temporal changes of COVID-19 pneumonia by mass evaluation using CT: a retrospective multi-center study. Annals of Translational Medicine, 8(15), 935–935. https://doi.org/10.21037/atm-20-4004

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