Introduction and Purpose Measurements of chest wall thickness (CWT) to examine the potential failure rates of needle decompression in elite rugby players and compare to previous studies. Measurements ...

Pneumothorax remains a common reason for medical admission to hospital with a UK annual incidence of 16.7 cases per 100 000 for men and 5.8 cases per 100 000 for women.1 This equates to around 8000 ...

A 71-year-old man presented to the emergency department with sudden onset sharp left-sided chest pain following a severe coughing episode. He was an ex-smoker with a background of chronic obstructive ...

A pneumothorax - also known as a collapsed lung - happens when air has leaked out from the lung in to the chest cavity and chest wall. This causes the lung to collapse down and peel away from the ...

Background: Idiopathic spontaneous pneumothorax (ISP) results from rupture of blebs, bullas, or diseased alveolar walls. Initiating mechanisms may relate to increased transpulmonary pressure. The ...

This research proposed an approach which takes images as a DICOM format from the Kaggle dataset named “SIIM-ACR Pneumothorax Segmentation”. Preprocessed images were fed to popular Unet architecture ...