Three-dimensional printing and 3D slicer: powerful tools in understanding and treating structural lung disease

GZ Cheng, RSJ Estepar, E Folch, J Onieva… - Chest, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the three-dimensional (3D) printing industry have enabled clinicians to
explore the use of 3D printing in preprocedural planning, biomedical tissue modeling, and …

Hierarchical amortized GAN for 3D high resolution medical image synthesis

L Sun, J Chen, Y Xu, M Gong, K Yu… - IEEE journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have many potential medical imaging applications,
including data augmentation, domain adaptation, and model explanation. Due to the limited …

3D printing and personalized airway stents

GZ Cheng, E Folch, A Wilson, R Brik, N Garcia… - Pulmonary …, 2017 - Springer
In recent years, the 3D printing industry has undergone rapid development. Clinicians and
researchers have begun to apply this technology in procedural planning, tissue engineering …

Relationship between emphysema progression at CT and mortality in ever-smokers: results from the COPDGene and ECLIPSE cohorts

SY Ash, R San José Estépar, SB Fain, R Tal-Singer… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Background The relationship between emphysema progression and long-term outcomes is
unclear. Purpose To determine the relationship between emphysema progression at CT and …

Deep learning-based computed tomography perfusion mapping (DL-CTPM) for pulmonary CT-to-perfusion translation

G Ren, J Zhang, T Li, H Xiao, LY Cheung… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Our purpose was to develop a deep learning–based computed tomography (CT)
perfusion mapping (DL-CTPM) method that synthesizes lung perfusion images from CT …

Pruning of the pulmonary vasculature in asthma. The Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP) cohort

SY Ash, FN Rahaghi, CE Come, JC Ross… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Loss of the peripheral pulmonary vasculature, termed vascular pruning, is
associated with disease severity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

Application of the 3D slicer chest imaging platform segmentation algorithm for large lung nodule delineation

SSF Yip, C Parmar, D Blezek, RSJ Estepar, S Pieper… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Purpose Accurate segmentation of lung nodules is crucial in the development of imaging
biomarkers for predicting malignancy of the nodules. Manual segmentation is time …

4D-flow cardiac magnetic resonance-derived vorticity is sensitive marker of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic obstructive …

M Schäfer, S Humphries, KR Stenmark… - European Heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims To investigate the possibility that vorticity assessed by four-dimensional flow cardiac
magnetic resonance (4D-Flow CMR) in the left ventricle of patients with mild-to-moderate …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of arterial and venous morphologic markers in pulmonary arterial hypertension using CT imaging

FN Rahaghi, P Nardelli, E Harder, I Singh… - Chest, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Pulmonary hypertension is a heterogeneous disease, and a significant portion
of patients at risk for it have CT imaging available. Advanced automated processing …

Novel approaches to imaging the pulmonary vasculature and right heart

F Alenezi, TA Covington, M Mukherjee… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
There is an increased appreciation for the importance of the right heart and pulmonary
circulation in several disease states across the spectrum of pulmonary hypertension and left …