Eric A. Hoffman

TL;DR: The goal of this process was to identify as completely as possible all lung nodules in each CT scan without requiring forced consensus and is expected to provide an essential medical imaging research resource to spur CAD development, validation, and dissemination in clinical practice.

TL;DR: A mathematical model and derived operational equation are used which enable local cerebral glucose consumption to be calculated in terms of the following measurable variables: gray matter, white matter, and whole brain metabolic rates, calculated as a weighted average based on the approximate volume of each structure.

TL;DR: The National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) is a randomized multicenter study comparing low-dose helical computed tomography with chest radiography in the screening of older current and former heavy smokers for early detection of lung cancer.

TL;DR: A sequence of morphological operations is used to smooth the irregular boundary along the mediastinum in order to obtain results consistent with these obtained by manual analysis, in which only the most central pulmonary arteries are excluded from the lung region.

TL;DR: The major findings of this investigation in the 68 subjects were that minimum airway area was significantly smaller in apneic compared with normal subjects and occurred in the retropalatal region, and thickness of the lateral pharyngeal muscular walls rather than enlargement of the parapharyngeAL fat pads was the predominant anatomic factor causing airway narrowing in Apneic subjects.