Novel therapeutic options in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) require delicate
patient selection and thus demand for expert radiologists visually and quantitatively …

Quantitative features obtained from computed tomography (CT) scans are being explored for
clinical applications. Various classes of quantitative features exist for chest CT including …

Objectives To evaluate a semi-automated segmentation and ventilated lung quantification
on chest computed tomography (CT) to assess lung involvement in patients affected by …

Purpose To assess the impact of lung segmentation accuracy in an automatic pipeline for
quantitative analysis of CT images. Methods Four different platforms for automatic lung …

Automatic, reliable lobe segmentation is crucial to the diagnosis, assessment, and
quantification of pulmonary diseases. Existing pulmonary lobe segmentation techniques are …

Background and objective Target lobar volume reduction (TLVR) is an important efficacy
outcome measure for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) treatment using one …

A bstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is frequently associated with
coronary artery disease (CAD). When considering computed tomography (CT) for COPD …

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are still waiting for curative
treatments. Considering its environmental cause, we hypothesized that COPD will be …

Objectives Densitometry on paired inspiratory and expiratory multidetector computed
tomography (MDCT) for the quantification of air trapping is an important approach to assess …

Objective To longitudinally evaluate effects of smoking cessation on quantitative CT in a
lung cancer screening cohort of heavy smokers over 4 years. Methods After 4 years, low …