DURING SCREENING SEASON, which runs from March to December, LUCAS sets off on Mondays from the cancer institute in Morgantown ...

For the retrospective study, an ensemble 3D U-Net deep learning model was trained for lung tumor detection and segmentation using 1,504 CT scans with 1,828 segmented lung tumors. The model was ...

Veronica Mann lost her only child Rashad Banks to lung cancer at 29 years old nearly four years ago. She recently shared her story in Washington D.C. as a part of the American Lung Association’s ...

Using the combined 150-CT scan test set, the model detected 82% specificity and 92% sensitivity of lung tumors. In a group of ...

Lung cancer screening with a low-dose CT scan is recommended for people between the ages of 50 and 80 who have a history of heavy smoking. Specifically, people who have smoked the equivalent of ...

SAN DIEGO — Among patients with COPD, the risk for respiratory and cancer mortality went up with mucus plugging in at least three lung segments, according to research presented at the American ...

When diagnosing lung metastases and second primary lung cancer in patients with head and neck cancer, low-dose CT leads to better sensitivity than chest x-ray but does not lead to improved overall ...

Over a median 9.5-year follow-up, mortality rates were 34.0%, 46.7%, and 54.1% in patients who had mucus plugs in zero, one to two, and three or more lung segments, respectively, on chest CT ...

Looking at follow-up data, in 2006 the research showed a 10-year survival rate of 80% for lung cancer patients whose disease was spotted by CT screening. The latest report extends those findings ...

Implant migration into the lungs is rare, with 107 cases reported globally between August 1998 and September 2019. Pulmonary embolism from migration is even rarer.

Using what they saw on CT scans, researchers grouped patients according to how many lung segments were affected by mucus plugs blocking medium- to large-sized airways that ranged from 2 mm to 10 ...

New CT technology allows for a comprehensive, simultaneous evaluation of lung structure and function, something not possible with standard CT, according to a study published in Radiology, a ...