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Quantitative assessment of technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile planar perfusion heart studies: application. of multivariate analysis to patient classification
Authors:Anna Plachcinska  Jacek Kusmierek  Maciej Kosmider  Malgorzata Bienkiewicz  Julian Liniecki
Affiliation:(1) Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University, Lodz, Poland;(2) Division of Angiocardiography and Haemodynamics, Institute of Radiology, Medical University, Lodz, Poland;(3) Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical University, 8/10, 92-216 Czechoslowacka, Lodz, Poland
Abstract:A quantified evaluation of planar cardiac perfusion scintigrams (the objective of the study), obtained using technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) was performed on the basis of an analysis of circumferential profile curves, representing the perfusion as seen in three typical projections. The analysis involved the curves obtained both at rest and after stress, and was based on a comparison of their shape (trend) with the normal trend (normative evaluation). The latter was obtained by means of an original method of iterative fitting of individual curves into the database. The base consisted of curves recorded in 53 patients (separately in males and females) with normal perfusion of the left ventricle (group I, the reference group). A group of 90 patients suspected of having coronary artery disease (group II) was subdivided into two subgroups on the basis of coronary arteriography: (a) those with and (b) those without critical stenosis of at least one artery. Profile curves characterising the LV perfusion were obtained at rest and after stress. Defects of perfusion were quantified by comparison of individual curves with the normal trends. By means of multivariate analysis it was demonstrated that vectors of mean values characterising the scintigraphically assessed defects of LV perfusion in the two subgroups of group II differed very significantly (P<10–5). Applying methods of discriminant analysis, a classification of patients from group II was performed into those with probable defects of perfusion and those free of such defects. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of diagnosis of coronary ischaemia, based on quantified planar99mTc-MIBI scintigraphy, reached 86%, 87% and 87%, respectively.
Keywords:Coronary artery disease  Cardiac perfusion scintigraphy  Technetium-99m methoxyisobutylisonitrile  Quantitation  Multivariate analysis
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