Search Results - "Ross, James C"
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Disease Staging and Prognosis in Smokers Using Deep Learning in Chest Computed Tomography
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-01-2018)“…Deep learning is a powerful tool that may allow for improved outcome prediction. To determine if deep learning, specifically convolutional neural network (CNN)…”
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Development and Progression of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-12-2016)“…The relationship between the development and/or progression of interstitial lung abnormalities (ILA) and clinical outcomes has not been previously…”
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MUC5B Promoter Polymorphism and Interstitial Lung Abnormalities
Published in The New England journal of medicine (06-06-2013)“…Variants in the gene encoding mucin 5B ( MUC5B ) have been associated with interstitial fibrosis. This study shows a relationship between the presence of the…”
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Arterial Vascular Pruning, Right Ventricular Size, and Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Longitudinal Observational Study
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-08-2019)“…Cor pulmonale (right ventricular [RV] dilation) and cor pulmonale parvus (RV shrinkage) are both described in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The…”
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CNNs trained with adult data are useful in pediatrics. A pneumonia classification example
Published in PloS one (25-07-2024)“…The scarcity of data for training deep learning models in pediatrics has prompted questions about the feasibility of employing CNNs trained with adult images…”
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Quantitative computed tomography measures of pectoralis muscle area and disease severity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A cross-sectional study
Published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society (01-03-2014)“…Muscle wasting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with a poor prognosis and is not readily assessed by measures of body mass index…”
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Pruning of the Pulmonary Vasculature in Asthma. The Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) Cohort
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-07-2018)“…Loss of the peripheral pulmonary vasculature, termed vascular pruning, is associated with disease severity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary…”
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Identification of Early Interstitial Lung Disease in Smokers from the COPDGene Study
Published in Academic radiology (01-01-2010)“…Rationale and Objectives The aim of this study is to compare two subjective methods for the identification of changes suggestive of early interstitial lung…”
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Interstitial Features at Chest CT Enhance the Deleterious Effects of Emphysema in the COPDGene Cohort
Published in Radiology (01-08-2018)“…Purpose To determine if interstitial features at chest CT enhance the effect of emphysema on clinical disease severity in smokers without clinical pulmonary…”
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Pectoralis muscle area and mortality in smokers without airflow obstruction
Published in Respiratory research (10-04-2018)“…Low muscle mass is associated with increased mortality in the general population but its prognostic value in at-risk smokers, those without expiratory airflow…”
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Automated quantitative 3D analysis of aorta size, morphology, and mural calcification distributions
Published in Medical physics (Lancaster) (01-09-2015)“…Purpose: The purpose of this work is to develop a fully automated pipeline to compute aorta morphology and calcification measures in large cohorts of CT scans…”
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Disease Severity Dependence of the Longitudinal Association Between CT Lung Density and Lung Function in Smokers
Published in Chest (01-03-2018)“…In smokers, the lung parenchyma is characterized by inflammation and emphysema, processes that can result in local gain and loss of lung tissue. CT measures of…”
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The Objective Identification and Quantification of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities in Smokers
Published in Academic radiology (01-08-2017)“…Rationale and Objectives Previous investigation suggests that visually detected interstitial changes in the lung parenchyma of smokers are highly clinically…”
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Clinical relevance of lung function trajectory clusters in middle-aged and older adults
Published in ERJ open research (01-01-2024)“…The determinants and health outcomes of lung function trajectories in adults among the general population are poorly understood. We aimed to identify and…”
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Airway count and emphysema assessed by chest CT imaging predicts clinical outcome in smokers
Published in Chest (01-10-2010)“…Recently, it has been shown that emphysematous destruction of the lung is associated with a decrease in the total number of terminal bronchioles. It is unknown…”
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Does quantification have a role to play in the future of bone SPECT?
Published in European journal of hybrid imaging (03-05-2019)“…Routinely, there is a visual basis to nuclear medicine reporting: a reporter subjectively places a patient’s condition into one of multiple discrete classes…”
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Association Between Airway Caliber Changes With Lung Inflation and Emphysema Assessed by Volumetric CT Scan in Subjects With COPD
Published in Chest (01-03-2012)“…Background An increase in airway caliber (airway distensibility) with lung inflation is attenuated in COPD. Furthermore, some subjects have a decrease in…”
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Effect of Emphysema on CT Scan Measures of Airway Dimensions in Smokers
Published in Chest (01-03-2013)“…Background In CT scans of smokers with COPD, the subsegmental airway wall area percent (WA%) is greater and more strongly correlated with FEV1 % predicted than…”
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Lung Mass in Smokers
Published in Academic radiology (01-04-2017)“…Rationale and Objective Emphysema is characterized by airspace dilation, inflammation, and irregular deposition of elastin and collagen in the interstitium…”
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Understanding the contribution of native tracheobronchial structure to lung function: CT assessment of airway morphology in never smokers
Published in Respiratory research (14-02-2015)“…Computed tomographic (CT) airway lumen narrowing is associated with lower lung function. Although volumetric CT measures of airways (wall volume [WV] and lumen…”
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