Emphysema is a progressive destruction of the lung aveolar tissue. We are investigating new strategies to define local measurements for emphysema based on texture descriptors. We have also implemented a software platform that enables the quantification of emphysema from lung CT images

Airway diseases refers to the chronic remodeling of the airways. Our main focuses has been the development of new non-parametric techniques (i.e. do not rely on the knowledge of the scanner point spread function) for the accurate measurement of airway wall thickness and airway luminal radius.