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COPD Project

Chronic Obstructive Disease (COPD) is an umbrella term for airway disease and emphysema. Our mission is to provide answers to the heterogeneity of the diseases by automatic analysis of High Resolution Chest CT.

Some of the most common imaging-based indexes of airway disease used in those studies are wall area percentage, which is the percentage of the total cross-sectional area of the airway occupied by the airway wall, and luminal area, which is the cross-sectional area of the air- way lumen. In our work, we have shown that peak attenuation of the bronchial wall measured at CT correlates significantly with expiratory airflow obstruction in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, particularly in the distal airways.

Featured publications

Quantitative assessment of bronchial wall attenuation on thin-section CT: an indicator of airflow limitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, AJR 2010. 

Sampling and Visualizing Creases with Scale-Space Particles, TVGC 2009.