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Comparison of new clinical and scintigraphic algorithms for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

Department of Nuclear Medicine, The Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 1. The distribution of lung scan probabilities from the Miettinen algorithm with boundaries between low and intermediate, and intermediate and high probability of pulmonary embolism set at 0.33 and 0.66, and 0.25 and 0.75, respectively.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 2. Comparison between Miettinen probability of pulmonary embolism and the classification of the lung scans according to the RM-PIOPED criteria.

View larger version (15K): [in a new window]   Figure 3. Correlation between the Miettinen-predicted probability of pulmonary embolism and the probability based on the McMaster clinical classification.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 4. Comparison of Miettinen-predicted probability of pulmonary embolism (PE) and the PisaPED classification based on the perfusion scan alone.