Objective Quality and Intelligibility Measures

2013 ◽  
pp. 505-604
Keyword(s):  
Objective Quality

Feasibility and Clinical Implications of Remotely Guided Ultrasound Examinations

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (7) ◽  
pp. 592-596
Author(s):  
Quinn Dufurrena ◽  
Kazi Imran Ullah ◽  
Erin Taub ◽  
Connor Leszczuk ◽  
Sahar Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Regional Wall Motion ◽  
Subjective Assessment ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
The Us ◽  
Regional Wall Motion Abnormalities ◽  
Wall Motion Abnormalities

BACKGROUND: Remotely guided ultrasound (US) examinations carried out by nonmedical personnel (novices) have been shown to produce clinically useful examinations, at least in small pilot studies. Comparison of the quality of such exams to those carried out by trained medical professionals is lacking in the literature. This study compared the objective quality and clinical utility of cardiac and pulmonary US examinations carried out by novices and trained physicians.METHODS: Cardiac and pulmonary US examinations were carried out by novices under remote guidance by an US expert and independently by US trained physicians. Exams were blindly evaluated by US experts for both a task-based objective score as well as a subjective assessment of clinical utility.RESULTS: Participating in the study were 16 novices and 9 physicians. Novices took longer to complete the US exams (median 641.5 s vs. 256 s). For the objective component, novices scored higher in exams evaluating for pneumothorax (100% vs. 87.5%). For the subjective component, novices more often obtained clinically useful exams in the assessment of cardiac regional wall motion abnormalities (56.3% vs. 11.1%). No other comparisons yielded statistically significant differences between the two groups. Both groups had generally higher scores for pulmonary examinations compared to cardiac. There was variability in the quality of exams carried out by novices depending on their expert guide.CONCLUSION: Remotely guided novices are able to carry out cardiac and pulmonary US examinations with similar, if not better, technical proficiency and clinical utility as US trained physicians, though they take longer to do so.Dufurrena Q, Ullah KI, Taub E, Leszczuk C, Ahmad S. Feasibility and clinical implications of remotely guided ultrasound examinations. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2020; 91(7):592–596.

Objective quality evaluation method of stereo image based on steerable pyramid

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 710-714
Author(s):  
Jin-jin WEI ◽  
Su-mei LI ◽  
Wen-juan LIU ◽  
Yan-jun ZANG
Keyword(s):  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Stereo Image ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Steerable Pyramid

On the performance of objective quality metrics for lightfields

2021 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 116179
Author(s):  
Saeed Mahmoudpour ◽  
Peter Schelkens
Keyword(s):  
Quality Metrics ◽  
Objective Quality

Toward Objective Quality Assurance in Cervical Cytopathology:Correlation of Cytopathologic Diagnoses with Detection of High-risk Human Papillomavirus Types

1994 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Sherman ◽  
Mark H. Schiffman ◽  
Attila T. Lorincz ◽  
M. Michele Manos ◽  
David R. Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Human Papillomavirus ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Objective Quality

scholarly journals Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain questionnaire: translation and linguistic adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese

2011 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Rodrigues Gazzotti ◽  
Marcela Batan Alith ◽  
Suzana Maria Fleury Malheiros ◽  
Milena Carlos Vidotto ◽  
José Roberto Jardim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Therapy ◽  
Brain Tumors ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Objective Quality ◽  
Back Translation ◽  
Questionnaire Version ◽  
New Treatments ◽  
Brazilian Culture

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Quality of life assessment among patients with brain tumors is important, given that new treatments have increased patient survival. The aim of this study was to translate the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain (FACT-Br) questionnaire (version 4) into Portuguese, carry out cross-cultural adaptation and assess its reproducibility. DESIGN AND SETTING: Cohort at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp). METHODS: Forty patients with a brain tumor seen at the neuro-oncology outpatient clinic participated in the study. The process of translation and back-translation was carried out, along with adaptation to the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to test the reproducibility of the FACT-Br (version 4). RESULTS: The reproducibility of the questionnaire was excellent (ICC = 0.95; 95% confidence interval, CI: 0.89-0.97). The ICC with a mean interval of 15 days between applications of the questionnaire was very good in all domains (ICC = 0.87 to 0.95). The mean time taken to answer the questionnaire was 6.27 ± 2.26 minutes, ranging from 3 to 11 minutes. CONCLUSION: The translated version of the FACT-Br questionnaire (version 4) adapted to the Portuguese language and Brazilian culture proved to be easily understood and achieved very good reproducibility among patients with diagnoses of brain tumors.

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