Structural and functional assessments of COPD populations via image registration and unsupervised machine learning

There is notable heterogeneity in clinical presentation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Classification of COPD is usually based on the severity of airflow limitation (pre- and post- bronchodilator FEV1), which may not sensitively differentiate subpopulations with disti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haghighi, Babak
Other Authors: Lin, Ching-Long
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2018
Subjects:
GPU
Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6431
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7931&context=etd