Articles from August 2023

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.