TY - JOUR
T1 - Placing faith in numbers
T2 - Quantification of perfusion with myocardial contrast echocardiography
AU - Lindner, Jonathan R.
AU - Sklenar, Jiri
N1 - Funding Information:
Dr. Lindner is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (DK063508), Bethesda, Maryland, and the American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Baltimore, Maryland.
PY - 2004/5/19
Y1 - 2004/5/19
N2 - At least for the near term, the assessment of myocardial perfusion with non-invasive imaging will be the domain of the clinician and not the computer. The development of automated or semi-automated computerized quantification programs has been driven by the need to enhance the performance of the human interpreter. To this end, the relative impact of new technologies for quantification must be evaluated in terms of whether a technology can improve diagnostic accuracy, standardize interpretation, and derive numerical values that have some clinical consequence.
AB - At least for the near term, the assessment of myocardial perfusion with non-invasive imaging will be the domain of the clinician and not the computer. The development of automated or semi-automated computerized quantification programs has been driven by the need to enhance the performance of the human interpreter. To this end, the relative impact of new technologies for quantification must be evaluated in terms of whether a technology can improve diagnostic accuracy, standardize interpretation, and derive numerical values that have some clinical consequence.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.03.002
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 15145105
AN - SCOPUS:2442530908
SN - 0735-1097
VL - 43
SP - 1814
EP - 1816
JO - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
JF - Journal of the American College of Cardiology
IS - 10
ER -