Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is heterogenous in its clinical manifestations
and disease progression. Patients often have disease courses that are difficult to predict with …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is considered to be a complex,
multicomponent, heterogeneous disease, the pathology, clinical and functional presentation …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disease that is
characterized by chronic airflow limitation. Unraveling of this heterogeneity is challenging …

Although the human and societal burden and cost of COPD is staggering, there are few
clinical tools that provide earlier diagnoses or a means to regionally monitor disease in a …

Lung imaging is increasingly being used to diagnose, quantify, and phenotype chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although spirometry is the gold standard for the …

Computed tomography (CT) has been extensively leveraged in research investigations of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD). Computer-aided tools can provide objective …

Computed tomography (CT) is the modality of choice for imaging the thorax and lung
structure. In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it used to recognise the key …

There is a growing appreciation of the staggering global burden of COPD, but for a number
of reasons, there are yet no treatments that significantly reduce mortality rates or alter the …

Rationale: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous syndrome
with phenotypic manifestations that tend to be distributed along a continuum. Unsupervised …

This book explains how analysis of the heterogeneity of chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) enhances understanding of the condition and leads to improved …