Trends in the incidence of pulmonary nodules in chest computed tomography:10-year results from two Dutch hospitals

Objective: To study trends in the incidence of reported pulmonary nodules and stage I lung cancer in chest CT. Methods: We analyzed the trends in the incidence of detected pulmonary nodules and stage I lung cancer in chest CT scans in the period between 2008 and 2019. Imaging metadata and radiology reports from all chest CT studies were collected from two large Dutch hospitals. A natural language processing algorithm was developed to identify studies with any reported pulmonary nodule. Results: Between 2008 and 2019, a total of 74,803 patients underwent 166,688 chest CT examinations at both ho... Mehr ...