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Paper on cross volume computed tomography image synthesis published in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Faizyab Chaudhary just published a paper in IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging entitled "LungViT: Ensembling Cascade of Texture Sensitive Hierarchical Vision Transformers for Cross-Volume Chest CT Image-to-Image Translation". He developed a generative adversarial framework for estimating CT image intensities of expiratory CT images from the inspiratory CT images.
Fissure integrity assessment pipeline

Paper on assessing lobar fissure integrity just published in Scientific Reports

Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Zac Althof just published a paper in Scientific Reports entitled "Attention U-net for automated pulmonary fissure integrity analysis in lung computed tomography images". He has developed an automated system for assessing fissure integrity in lung CT images and has applied it to data from the SPIROMICS cohort.
Role of lung lobar sliding on parenchymal distortion during breathing

Paper on the role of lung lobar sliding during breathing published in the Journal of Applied Physiology

Friday, August 11, 2023
Adam Galloy (from Dr. Raghvan's lab) just published a new paper on the role of sliding at the lobar fissure and its influence on lung mechanics and tissue distortion during breathing.
Image showing how to estimate Jacobian map from single and paired CT images

New paper on "Direct estimation of regional lung volume change from paired and single CT images using residual regression neural network"

Friday, March 17, 2023
A new paper showing how to estimate local lung volume change (in the form of Jacobian determinant maps) from single and paired CT images has been published in Medical Physics.
CTDG texture characterisation by AMFM in participants with and without severe exacerbations

Lancet Digital Health article published on predicting severe exacerbations in COPD using lung CT texture analysis

Saturday, February 25, 2023
Faizyab Chaudhary is the lead author on a new article in Lancet Digital Health on using lung CT texture analysis to predict exacerbations in COPD.
Display of asthma cluster phenotypes

Paper on CT biomarkers to assess and phenotype asthma published

Wednesday, April 27, 2022
A new paper entitled "Quantitative CT Characteristics of Cluster Phenotypes in the Severe Asthma Research Program Cohorts" was just published in the Radiology. This paper shows the utility of biomechanical measures (especially Jacobian and ADI) in clustering and phenotyping asthma subgroups.
measurement of lung lobar sliding

Article on lobar contact mechanics is published

Monday, April 25, 2022
Adam Galloy (from Prof. Raghavan lab) just published an article on lung lobar sliding analysis using contact mechanics in Applications in Engineering Science.
Graphical abstract for Di Wang's PLOSL paper

PLOSL paper is published!

Friday, April 8, 2022
Di Wang's work on lung image registration was just published in Medical Image Analysis: PLOSL: Population Learning Followed by One Shot Learning Pulmonary Image Registration Using Tissue Volume Preserving and Vesselness Constraints. 
ISBI 2022 paper figure

New ISBI 2022 paper on generating lung expansion (Jacobian) maps from a single CT image

Friday, April 1, 2022
Faizyab Chaudhary just published an ISBI 2022 conference paper on "Single volume lung biomechanics from chest computed tomography using a mode preserving generative adversarial network." In this work, he describes how to generation synthetic Jacobian images depicting lung expansion from a single CT image.
Close-up photo of engineering building

Reinhardt among eight to receive named professorships in engineering

Monday, September 14, 2020
Joseph Reinhardt, director of the Reinhardt Biomedical Imaging Lab, is among eight scholars from the College of Engineering (COE) to receive named professorships and chairs, which are among the highest university honors faculty members can receive.