Progress and prospect on imaging diagnosis of COVID-19

Li Fan; Dong Li; Huadan Xue; Longjiang Zhang; Zaiyi Liu; Bing Zhang; Lina Zhang; Wenjie Yang; Baojun Xie; Xiaoyi Duan; Xiuhua Hu; Kailiang Cheng; Liqing Peng; Nan Yu; Lan Song; Huai Chen; Xin Sui; Nannan Zheng; Shiyuan Liu; Zhengyu Jin

doi:10.1007/s42058-020-00031-5

Progress and prospect on imaging diagnosis of COVID-19

Chin J Acad Radiol. 2020;3(1):4-13. doi: 10.1007/s42058-020-00031-5. Epub 2020 Mar 18.

Authors

Li Fan^#¹, Dong Li^#², Huadan Xue^#³, Longjiang Zhang⁴, Zaiyi Liu⁵, Bing Zhang⁶, Lina Zhang⁷, Wenjie Yang⁸, Baojun Xie⁹, Xiaoyi Duan¹⁰, Xiuhua Hu¹¹, Kailiang Cheng¹², Liqing Peng¹³, Nan Yu¹⁴, Lan Song³, Huai Chen¹⁵, Xin Sui³, Nannan Zheng¹⁶, Shiyuan Liu¹, Zhengyu Jin³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, No. 415 Fengyang Road, Shanghai, 200003 China.
² Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, No. 154 Anshan Road, Heping District, Tianjin, 300052 China.
³ Department of Radiology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, No. 1 Shuaifuyuan, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100730 China.
⁴ Department of Medical Imaging, Jinling Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, No. 305 Zhongshan Eastern Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, 210002 China.
⁵ Department of Radiolgy, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, No. 106, Zhongshan Er Road, Guangzhou, 510080 China.
⁶ Department of Radiolgy, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, No. 321 Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, 210008 China.
⁷ Department of Radiology, The First Hospital of China Medical University, No. 155 Nanjingbei Street, Heping District, Shenyang, 110001 China.
⁸ Department of Radiology, Shanghai Ruijin Hospital, No. 127 Ruijin Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, 200025 China.
⁹ Department of Radiology, Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, No. 238 Jiefang Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, 430060 China.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, No. 277 Yanta West Road, Xi'an, 710061 Shaanxi China.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Medical School, Zhejiang University, 3 East Qinchun Road, Hangzhou, 310006 Zhejiang China.
¹² Department of Radiology, China-Japan Union Hospital of Jilin University, No. 126 Xiantai Street, Erdao District, Changchun, 130033 Jilin China.
¹³ Department of Radiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37 Guoxue Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu, 610041 China.
¹⁴ Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, No 2, Wei Yang West Road, Xian Yang, 712000 China.
¹⁵ Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, No. 151 Yanjiang Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, 510120 China.
¹⁶ Department of Radiology, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technologyechnology, No. 100 Hongkong Road, Jiangan District, Wuhan, 430016 China.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

COVID-19 has become a public health emergency due to its rapid transmission. The appearance of pneumonia is one of the major clues for the diagnosis, progress and therapeutic evaluation. More and more literatures about imaging manifestations and related research have been reported. In order to know about the progress and prospective on imaging of COVID-19, this review focus on interpreting the CT findings, stating the potential pathological basis, proposing the challenge of patients with underlying diseases, differentiating with other diseases and suggesting the future research and clinical directions, which would be helpful for the radiologists in the clinical practice and research.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; COVID-19; Imaging; Viral pneumonia.

Publication types

Review