performed, with more than 400 patterns of testing. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain or spine was ordered in 23.2 % of patients, whereas a glucose tolerance test was rarely obtained (1.0 %). Mean Medicare expenditures were significantly higher in the diagnostic period than in the baseline ...
CTA Head, CTP, MRI Brain, and Non-contrast CT Head imaging use was determined from Common Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes. ICD10 Codes I60-I69 were used to indicate cerebrovascular disease. Statistical comparisons used 95% CI for rate per 100,000 ED visits.#Results:ED utilization of ...
Algorithm 1: Pseudo-code for CT lung scans preprocessing. Input: Input image I(n,m) Output: Output image K(n,m) begin Adjust image intensity values Convert the image into a binary image(B) For all I pixels: IF the grayscale value < the image Mean, THEN, the pixel value = 0 ELSE...