Normal Lung Quantification in Usual Interstitial Pneumonia Pattern: The Impact of Threshold-based Volumetric CT Analysis for the Staging of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Although several computer-aided computed tomography (CT) analysis methods have been reported to objectively assess the disease severity and progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), it is unclear which method is most practical. A universal severity classification system has not yet been ad...

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Main Authors: Hirotsugu Ohkubo, Yoshihiro Kanemitsu, Takehiro Uemura, Osamu Takakuwa, Masaya Takemura, Ken Maeno, Yutaka Ito, Tetsuya Oguri, Nobutaka Kazawa, Ryuji Mikami, Akio Niimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4816297?pdf=render