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Open AccessThe impact of trained radiographers as concurrent readers on performance and reading time of experienced radiologists in the UK Lung Cancer Screening (UKLS) trial
To compare radiologists’ performance reading CTs independently with their performance using radiographers as concurrent readers in lung cancer screening.
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Open AccessChronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis: identification of key prognostic determinants using automated CT analysis
Chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (CHP) has a variable disease course. Computer analysis of CT features was used to identify a subset of CHP patients with an outcome similar to patients with idiopathic pulm...
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Open AccessEvaluation of computer-based computer tomography stratification against outcome models in connective tissue disease-related interstitial lung disease: a patient outcome study
To evaluate computer-based computer tomography (CT) analysis (CALIPER) against visual CT scoring and pulmonary function tests (PFTs) when predicting mortality in patients with connective tissue disease-related...
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Open AccessRelationship between fibroblastic foci profusion and high resolution CT morphology in fibrotic lung disease
Fibroblastic foci profusion on histopathology and severity of traction bronchiectasis on highresolution computed tomography (HRCT) have been shown to be predictors of mortality in patients with idiopathic pulm...
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Open AccessEvidence of mycobacterial disease in COPD patients with lung volume reduction surgery; the importance of histological assessment of specimens: a cohort study
Patients with COPD are at risk of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection (NTM). This study examined the histology of lung tissue from COPD patients following lung volume reduction with particular focus on evi...
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Open AccessNon-specific interstitial pneumonia in cigarette smokers: a CT study
The goal of this study was to seek indirect evidence that smoking is an aetiological factor in some patients with non-specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP). Ten current and eight ex-smokers with NSIP were com...
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Aspergillus in the lung: diverse and coincident forms
Pulmonary disease caused by the fungus Aspergillus has traditionally been regarded as belonging to one of the following, apparently distinct, entities: saprophytic aspergilloma; allergic bronchopulmonary aspergil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ERS Transform for the Detection of Bronchi on CT of the Lungs
The identification of bronchi on Computed Tomography (CT) images of the lungs provides valuable clinical information for the assessment of patients with suspected bronchiectasis, emphysema, or constrictive obl...
