BACKGROUND: Longitudinal studies often require flexible methodologies for predicting response trajectories based on time-dependent and time-independent covariates. To address the complexities of longitudinal data, this study proposes a novel extensio...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Jul 21, 2025
OBJECTIVE: Evidence from prior studies indicates that certain endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), such as phenols and phthalates, may serve as environmental risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, no studies have ex...
Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Jul 14, 2025
BACKGROUND: Although the relationship between environmental pollutants and respiratory health has received widespread attention, no studies have explored the association between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and preserved ratio impaired spirometr...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a chronic lung condition characterized by airflow obstruction. Current diagnostic methods primarily rely on identifying prominent features in spirometry (Volume-Flow time series) to detect COPD, but the...
PROBLEM: Current spirometers face challenges in evaluating acceptability criteria, often requiring manual visual inspection by trained specialists. Automating this process could improve diagnostic workflows and reduce variability in test assessments.
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The structural lung features that characterize individuals with preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) that remain stable overtime are unknown. The objective of this study was to use machine learning models with compute...
BACKGROUND: The use of machine learning(ML) methods would improve the diagnosis of small airway dysfunction(SAD) in subjects with chronic respiratory symptoms and preserved pulmonary function(PPF). This paper evaluated the performance of several ML a...
BACKGROUND: Chest x-ray is a basic, cost-effective, and widely available imaging method that is used for static assessments of organic diseases and anatomical abnormalities, but its ability to estimate dynamic measurements such as pulmonary function ...
INTRODUCTION: Spirometry is a point-of-care lung function test that helps support the diagnosis and monitoring of chronic lung disease. The quality and interpretation accuracy of spirometry is variable in primary care. This study aims to evaluate whe...
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...
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