Intrathoracic airway trees: segmentation and airway morphology analysis from low-dose CT scans

JTschirren,EA Hoffman, G McLennan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The segmentation of the human airway tree from volumetric computed tomography (CT)
images builds an important step for many clinical applications and for physiological studies. …

CT-based geometry analysis and finite element models of the human and ovine bronchial tree

MH Tawhai,P Hunter, JTschirren… - Journal of applied …, 2004 - journals.physiology.org
The interpretation of experimental results from functional medical imaging is complicated by
intersubject and interspecies differences in airway geometry. The application of …

Extraction of airways from CT (EXACT'09)

…,EM van Rikxoort, JTschirren… - … on Medical Imaging, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a framework for establishing a reference airway tree segmentation,
which was used to quantitatively evaluate 15 different airway tree extraction algorithms in a …

Characterization of the interstitial lung diseases via density-based and texture-based analysis of computed tomography images of lung structure and function1

…,O Saba, D Chon,S Samrah, H Shikata, JTschirren… - Academic radiology, 2003 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives. Efforts to establish a quantitative approach to the computed
tomography (CT)-based characterization of the lung parenchyma in interstitial lung disease (…

Matching and anatomical labeling of human airway tree

JTschirren, G McLennan,K Palágyi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Matching of corresponding branchpoints between two human airway trees, as well as assigning
anatomical names to the segments and branchpoints of the human airway tree, are of …

Quantitative analysis of pulmonary airway tree structures

K Palágyi, JTschirren,EA Hoffman,M Sonka- Computers in biology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
A method for computationally efficient skeletonization of three-dimensional tubular structures
is reported. The method is specifically targeting skeletonization of vascular and airway tree …

Blood eosinophil count thresholds and exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

…,J Sieren, D Stinson,BC Stoel, JTschirren… - Journal of allergy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Eosinophilic airway inflammation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) is associated with exacerbations and responsivity to steroids, suggesting …

Segmentation and quantitative analysis of intrathoracic airway trees from computed tomography images

JTschirren,EA Hoffman, G McLennan… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - atsjournals.org
The segmentation of the human airway tree from volumetric multidetector-row computed
tomography images is an important prerequisite for many clinical applications and physiologic …

Association between expiratory central airway collapse and respiratory outcomes among smokers

SP Bhatt,NLJ Terry, H Nath, JA Zach, JTschirren… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Central airway collapse greater than 50% of luminal area during exhalation (expiratory
central airway collapse [ECAC]) is associated with cigarette smoking and chronic …

Machine learning characterization of COPD subtypes: insights from the COPDGene study

…, A Oh, J Schroeder,J Sieren,BC Stoel, JTschirren… - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
COPD is a heterogeneous syndrome. Many COPD subtypes have been proposed, but there
is not yet consensus on how many COPD subtypes there are and how they should be …