Automated airway quantification associates with mortality in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Wing Keung CheungAshkan PakzadNesrin MogulkocSarah NeedlemanBojidar RangelovEyjolfur GudmundssonAn ZhaoMariam AbbasDavina McLavertyDimitrios AsimakopoulosRobert ChapmanRecep SavasSam M JanesYipeng HuDaniel C AlexanderJohn R HurstJoseph Jacob

Published in: European radiology (2023)

• AirQuant generates measures of intersegmental tapering and segmental tortuosity. • Automated airway quantification associates with mortality in IPF independent of established measures of disease severity. • Automated airway analysis could be used to refine patient selection for therapeutic trials in IPF.

Keyphrases

idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
deep learning
machine learning
high throughput
interstitial lung disease
cardiovascular events
risk factors
cardiovascular disease
rheumatoid arthritis