Assessment of survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using quantitative HRCT indexes

Assessment of survival in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis using quantitative HRCT indexes

Abstract Background The assessment of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) using HRCT requires great experience and is limited by a significant inter-observer variability, even between trained radiologists. The evaluation of HRCT through automated quantitative analysis may hopefully solve this proble...

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Main Authors: Sebastiano Emanuele Torrisi, Stefano Palmucci, Alessandro Stefano, Giorgio Russo, Alfredo Gaetano Torcitto, Daniele Falsaperla, Mauro Gioè, Mauro Pavone, Ada Vancheri, Gianluca Sambataro, Domenico Sambataro, Letizia Antonella Mauro, Emanuele Grassedonio, Antonio Basile, Carlo Vancheri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PAGEPress Publications 2018-12-01
Series:Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
Subjects:
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
HRCT
Kurtosis
Usual interstitial pneumonia
Survival
Mortality
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40248-018-0155-2

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