Imaging-based clusters in former smokers of the COPD cohort associate with clinical characteristics: the SubPopulations and intermediate outcome measures in COPD study (SPIROMICS)
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DOI: 10.1186/s12931-019-1121-z
Abstract: BackgroundQuantitative computed tomographic (QCT) imaging-based metrics enable to quantify smoking induced disease alterations and to identify imaging-based clusters for current smokers. We aimed to derive clinically meaningful sub-groups of former smokers using dimensional reduction and… read more here.
Keywords: cluster subjects; emphysema; based clusters; clinical characteristics ... See more keywords