Application of artificial intelligence in quantifying lung deposition dose of black carbon in people with exposure to ambient combustion particles.
Journal:
Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology
PMID:
37848612
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Understanding lung deposition dose of black carbon is critical to fully reconcile epidemiological evidence of combustion particles induced health effects and inform the development of air quality metrics concerning black carbon. Macrophage carbon load (MaCL) is a novel cytology method that quantifies lung deposition dose of black carbon, however it has limited feasibility in large-scale epidemiological study due to the labor-intensive manual counting.