Diagnostic value of automated quantification of nuclear cardiology in Japanese patients with single vessel coronary artery disease: Comparison between Japanese and American normal databases

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• 作者：Shunichi Yoda ; Kanae Nakanishi ; Ayako Tano ; Yusuke Hori ; Yasuyuki Suzuki ; Naoya Matsumoto ; Atsushi Hirayama
• 关键词：Coronary artery disease ; Coronary vessels ; Computer-assisted imaging processing ; Radionuclide imaging ; Gender-related risk factors
• 刊名：Journal of Cardiology
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：62
• 期：4
• 页码：224-229
• 全文大小：918 K

文摘

Background

The Japanese diagnostic assessment of nuclear cardiology has usually been based on semi-quantitative visual analyses but not on automated quantification with a total perfusion deficit (TPD). We, therefore, aimed to determine whether automated TPD quantification is useful to detect coronary artery disease (CAD) in Japanese patients in comparison with conventional visual segmental analysis, and to compare results from the automated assessment between the Japanese and American normal databases (NDBs).

Methods

Patients with suspected CAD underwent rest ²⁰¹Tl and stress ^99mTc-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and coronary angiography within three months. The TPD was automatically derived from the SPECT image through quantitative perfusion SPECT software with the Japanese and American NDBs. The visual summed stress scores (SSS) were estimated with the 5-point visual scoring model for 20 segments of SPECT images. An abnormal criteria for the stress TPD and SSS were defined as ¡Ý5 % and ¡Ý4, respectively.

Results

Detection sensitivity of CAD was 87 % with the stress TPD score derived from the Japanese NDB and 85 % with the SSS in visual analysis. In contrast, the detection sensitivity with the stress TPD score derived from the American NDB was 75 % , which was significantly lower than that with the Japanese TPD (p = 0.0004). Specificity of the automated Japanese TPD assessment was similar to that of the visual SSS assessment (87 % vs. 80 % ). Thus, sensitivity and specificity of the automated quantitative assessment based on the TPD scores derived from the Japanese NDB were consistent with that of visual quantification based on the segmental defect scores.

Conclusion

The automated quantitative assessment with the Japanese NDB is useful for the detection of CAD when experts in visual interpretation of a myocardial perfusion SPECT image were absent in a clinical setting.