Книга: Marlijne Cook «Airway Morphology of a Rare Pediatric Diffuse Lung Disease»
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Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" Neuroendocrine Cell Hyperplasia of Infancy (NEHI) is a rare diffuse lung disease, providing diagnostic and prognostic difficulties due to heterogeneous presentations and unknown etiology. Confirmed cases of NEHI show an increased count of neuroendocrine cells in airway walls upon completion of a lung biopsy. These cells are associated with branch morphogenesis during fetal growth, which leads our hypothesis that NEHI symptoms are correlated with changes in infant airway tree structure. Using volumetric computed tomography scans, patient airway trees are edited to establish a skeletonized form. Image registration techniques align both a control and diseased group into a standard coordinate frame. Principle Component Analysis provides information about the greatest axes of variation, leading to a set of parameters that classify NEHI from the control group. We found that the extent of airway tree deformation in these given axes was correlated with airway functionality. These results... ISBN:9783659665219 Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2014)
ISBN: 9783659665219 |
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