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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Published in:	Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine
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:	Mattioli 1885 2018-12-01
Subjects:	Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis HRCT Kurtosis Usual interstitial pneumonia Survival Mortality
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40248-018-0155-2