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Voxel-Wise Longitudinal Parametric Response Mapping Analysis of Chest Computed Tomography in Smokers
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Voxel-Wise Longitudinal Parametric Response Mapping Analysis of Chest Computed Tomography in Smokers

Wassim W. Labaki, Tian Gu, Susan Murray, Charles R. Hatt, Craig J. Galbán, Brian D. Ross, Carlos H. Martinez, Jeffrey L. Curtis, Eric A. Hoffman, Esther Pompe, …
Academic radiology, Vol.26(2), pp.217-223
02/2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2018.05.024
PMCID: PMC6340741
PMID: 30055897
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/6340741View
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Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a heterogeneous disease characterized by small airway abnormality and emphysema. We hypothesized that a voxel-wise computed tomography analytic approach would identify patterns of disease progression in smokers. We analyzed 725 smokers in spirometric GOLD stages 0-4 with two chest CTs 5 years apart. Baseline inspiration, follow-up inspiration and follow-up expiration images were spatially registered to baseline expiration so that each voxel had correspondences across all time points and respiratory phases. Voxel-wise Parametric Response Mapping (PRM) was then generated for the baseline and follow-up scans. PRM classifies lung as normal, functional small airway disease (PRMfSAD), and emphysema (PRMEMPH). Subjects with low baseline PRMfSAD and PRMEMPH predominantly had an increase in PRMfSAD on follow-up; those with higher baseline PRMfSAD and PRMEMPH mostly had increases in PRMEMPH. For GOLD 0 participants (n = 419), mean 5-year increases in PRMfSAD and PRMEMPH were 0.3% for both; for GOLD 1–4 participants (n = 306), they were 0.6% and 1.6%, respectively. Eighty GOLD 0 subjects (19.1%) had overall radiologic progression (30.0% to PRMfSAD, 52.5% to PRMEMPH, and 17.5% to both); 153 GOLD 1–4 subjects (50.0%) experienced progression (17.6% to PRMfSAD, 48.4% to PRMEMPH, and 34.0% to both). In a multivariable model, both baseline PRMfSAD and PRMEMPH were associated with development of PRMEMPH on follow-up, although this relationship was diminished at higher levels of baseline PRMEMPH. A voxel-wise longitudinal PRM analytic approach can identify patterns of disease progression in smokers with and without chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Computed tomography Emphysema Parametric Response Mapping Small airway disease

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