BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a prevalent and debilitating respiratory condition that imposes a significant healthcare burden worldwide. Accurate staging of COPD severity is crucial for patient management and treatment p...
Characterization of lung sounds (LS) is indispensable for diagnosing respiratory pathology. Although conventional neural networks (NNs) have been widely employed for the automatic diagnosis of lung sounds, deep neural networks can potentially be more...
OBJECTIVE: Existing approaches to fairness evaluation often overlook systematic differences in the social determinants of health, like demographics and socioeconomics, among comparison groups, potentially leading to inaccurate or even contradictory c...
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Jun 12, 2024
BACKGROUND: Development of new tools in artificial intelligence has an outstanding performance in the recognition of multidimensional patterns, which is why they have proven to be useful in the diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD...
. Diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using impulse oscillometry (IOS) is challenging due to the high level of clinical expertise it demands from doctors, which limits the clinical application of IOS in screening. The primary aim ...
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
May 14, 2024
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), as one of the major global health threat diseases, particularly in China, presents a high prevalence and mortality rate. Early diagnosis is crucial for controlling disease progression and improving patien...
INTRODUCTION: Spirometry is the gold standard for COPD diagnosis and severity determination, but is technique-dependent, nonspecific, and requires administration by a trained healthcare professional. There is a need for a fast, reliable, and precise ...
BACKGROUND: Interstitial lung abnormalities (ILAs) on CT may affect the clinical outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but their quantification remains unestablished. This study examined whether artificial intelligen...
BACKGROUND: Respiratory diseases, including active tuberculosis (TB), asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), constitute substantial global health challenges, necessitating timely and accurate diagnosis for effective treatment and m...
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