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Unsupervised Discovery of Spatially-Informed Lung Texture Patterns for Pulmonary Emphysema: The MESA COPD Study
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Unsupervised Discovery of Spatially-Informed Lung Texture Patterns for Pulmonary Emphysema: The MESA COPD Study

Jie Yang, Elsa D Angelini, Pallavi P Balte, Eric A Hoffman, John H M Austin, Benjamin M Smith, Jingkuan Song, R Graham Barr and Andrew F Laine
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention : MICCAI ... International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Vol.10433, pp.116-124
09/2017
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66182-7_14
PMCID: PMC5773120
PMID: 29354811
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Abstract

Unsupervised discovery of pulmonary emphysema subtypes offers the potential for new definitions of emphysema on lung computed tomography (CT) that go beyond the standard subtypes identified on autopsy. Emphysema subtypes can be defined on CT as a variety of textures with certain spatial prevalence. However, most existing approaches for learning emphysema subtypes on CT are limited to texture features, which are sub-optimal due to the lack of spatial information. In this work, we exploit a standardized spatial mapping of the lung and propose a novel framework for combining spatial and texture information to discover spatially-informed lung texture patterns (sLTPs). Our spatial mapping is demonstrated to be a powerful tool to study emphysema spatial locations over different populations. The discovered sLTPs are shown to have high reproducibility, ability to encode standard emphysema subtypes, and significant associations with clinical characteristics.
Algorithms Lung - pathology Reproducibility of Results Humans Sensitivity and Specificity Pulmonary Emphysema - pathology Poisson Distribution Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnostic imaging Tomography, X-Ray Computed Lung - diagnostic imaging Pulmonary Emphysema - diagnostic imaging

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