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01-12-2020 | Ultrasound | Letter to the Editor

The artificial count of artifacts for thoracic ultrasound: what is the clinical usefulness?

Authors: Carla Maria Irene Quarato, Mariapia Venuti, Marco Sperandeo

Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing | Issue 6/2020

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Many works in the literature have shown that the increase in the number of B lines is a nonspecific sign of underlying pulmonary disease. Actually these artifacts are the result of a physical effect of ultrasound between the chest wall and the pulmonary air. Nevertheless the intra- and inter-operator variability in B-lines counting does not only reside only in the count itself but depends also on the type and frequency of the probe used, as well as the ultrasound scan machine setting and the patient’s chest shape. In our opinion, proposing a software algorithm to count lines B seems like an unproductive effort.

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Title: The artificial count of artifacts for thoracic ultrasound: what is the clinical usefulness?
Authors: Carla Maria Irene Quarato
Mariapia Venuti
Marco Sperandeo
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Keywords: Ultrasound
Ultrasound
Thoracic Ultrasound
Pneumonectomy
Published in: Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 1387-1307
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2614
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10877-020-00484-0

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