Screening and staging of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with deep learning based on chest X-ray images and clinical parameters.

Journal: BMC pulmonary medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is underdiagnosed with the current gold standard measure pulmonary function test (PFT). A more sensitive and simple option for early detection and severity evaluation of COPD could benefit practitioners and patients.

Authors

  • XiaoLing Zou
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Sun Yat-Sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
  • Yong Ren
    Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center, Research Institute of Tsinghua, Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, China.
  • HaiLing Yang
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Sun Yat-Sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
  • ManMan Zou
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dongguan People's Hospital, Dongguan, China.
  • Ping Meng
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, the Six Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Qingyuan People's Hospital, Qingyuan, China.
  • LiYi Zhang
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Sun Yat-Sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
  • MingJuan Gong
    Department of Internal Medicine, Huazhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Huazhou, China.
  • WenWen Ding
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Sun Yat-Sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
  • Lanqing Han
    Artificial Intelligence Innovation Center, Research Institute of Tsinghua, Pearl River Delta, Guangzhou, China.
  • TianTuo Zhang
    Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Institute of Respiratory Diseases of Sun Yat-Sen University, 600 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, 510630, China. zhtituli@163.com.