Observational Study
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World J Radiol. Oct 28, 2018; 10(10): 124-134
Published online Oct 28, 2018. doi: 10.4329/wjr.v10.i10.124
Reproducibility of thrombus volume quantification in multicenter computed tomography pulmonary angiography studies
Audrey E Kaufman, Alison N Pruzan, Ching Hsu, Sarayu Ramachandran, Adam Jacobi, Indravadan Patel, Lee Schwocho, Michele F Mercuri, Zahi A Fayad, Venkatesh Mani
Audrey E Kaufman, Alison N Pruzan, Sarayu Ramachandran, Adam Jacobi, Indravadan Patel, Lee Schwocho, Michele F Mercuri, Zahi A Fayad, Venkatesh Mani, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, United States
Audrey E Kaufman, Alison N Pruzan, Sarayu Ramachandran, Zahi A Fayad, Venkatesh Mani, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, NY 10029, United States
Ching Hsu, Indravadan Patel, Lee Schwocho, Michele F Mercuri, Daiichi Sankyo Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ 07920, United States
Author contributions: All authors designed the experiment; Kaufman AE, Pruzan AN, Ramachandran S, Mani V performed the experiment; Kaufman AE and Pruzan AN performed the image analysis; Hsu C, Pruzan AN and Mani V performed statistical analysis; Kaufman AE and Mani V wrote the draft of the manuscript; all authors critically reviewed the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was submitted to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai but was deemed that no IRB approval was necessary for conduct of this study [See Determination regarding engagement in human research letter from the program for protection of research subjects (PPHS) office IRB].
Informed consent statement: Waiver of informed consent was obtained from the Institutional Review Board as only deidentified data was used in this study. The images analyzed for this study were anonymized and devoid of any Protected Health Information.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Ching Hsu, Indravadan Patel, Lee Schwocho, Michele F Mercuri are employees of Daiichi Sankyo Inc. All other authors have no conflicts to disclose.
Data sharing statement: Once published and after appropriate safeguard to ensure that the data is devoid of any identifiers, the data used for the analysis for this study will be shared on the Mount Sinai data sharing portal according to Institutional guidelines.
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Correspondence to: Venkatesh Mani, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1470 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10029, United States. venkatesh.mani@mountsinai.org
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Received: June 1, 2018
Peer-review started: June 1, 2018
First decision: July 23, 2018
Revised: July 27, 2018
Accepted: August 4, 2018
Article in press: August 4, 2018
Published online: October 28, 2018
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Core Tip

Core tip: Blood clots that occur in deep leg veins can break away and cause the serious complication of clots (then termed emboli) lodged in the lungs. Measuring the volume of the emboli with a semi-automated region growing software program using computed tomography pulmonary angiogram data can be helpful to evaluate treatment efficacy in clinical drug trials. This study demonstrates the technique to be reproducible both between image analysts and when repeated by the same image analyst when the data is obtained in a multicenter setting.