How to Assess CXR Image Quality & Adapt Your Read

In this discussion, we unravel the factors that influence chest x-ray image quality and provide helpful insights into quality assessment and adapting your CXR interpretation in the setting of suboptimal image quality.

Some of the case images in this talk appear courtesy of Ahmed El-Sherief, MD.

00:00 - Introduction
01:14 - Patient Positioning
01:59 - Patient Positioning: Rotation
05:14 - Patient Positioning: Angulation
07:38 - Patient Positioning: Centering
09:24 - Patient Positioning: Posture
11:54 - Quality of Inspiration
14:54 - Exposure
18:32 - Image Contrast
21:34 - Image Definition
22:48 - Image Definition: Motion Blur
23:54 - Image Definition: Noise
24:45 - Image Definition: Geometry
26:20 - Image Definition: Processing
26:46 - Artifacts