Schneebeli, Alessandro and Del Grande, Filippo and Vincenzo, Gabriele and Cescon, Corrado and Barbero, Marco (2017) Test-retest reliability of echo intensity parameters in healthy Achilles tendons using a semi-automatic tracing procedure. Skeletal Radiology. ISSN 0364-2348
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Objective To evaluate the test-retest reliability of the ultrasound echo intensity parameters on healthy Achilles tendon using a semi-automatic tracing procedure. Materials and methods Eighteen healthy volunteers participated. B-mode images were acquired in the transverse plane (mid-tendon; insertion) and used to analyze tendon echogenicity. Grayscale distribution of the pixels within the selected ROIs was represented as a histogram. Descriptive statistics of the grayscale distribution (mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, and entropy) and parameters from the cooccurrence matrix (contrast, energy, and homogeneity) were calculated. Results Reliability of echo intensity parameters of the mid- Achilles tendon ranged from high to very high with an ICC2.k of 0.94 for echogenicity, 0.87 for variance, 0.80 for skewness, 0.72 for kurtosis, 0.89 for entropy, 0.90 for contrast, 0.91 for energy, and 0.93 for homogeneity, while for tendon insertion they ranged from moderate to high with an ICC2.k of 0.74 for echogenicity, 0.88 for variance, 0.75 for skewness, 0.55 for kurtosis, 0.87 for entropy, 0.70 for contrast, 0.77 for energy, and 0.56 for homogeneity. Conclusion Ultrasound echo intensity is a reliable technique to characterize the internal structure of the Achilles tendon.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Medicine and Dentistry > Clinical medicine |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale |
| Depositing User: | Alessandro Schneebeli |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2017 08:35 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2017 08:35 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/8624 |
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