Carol L. Novak,Benjamin L. Odry,Atilla Peter Kiraly
申请号：
US14840357
公开号：
US20170055876A1
申请日:
2015.08.31
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
A method of evaluating airway wall density and inflammation including: segmenting a bronchial tree to create an airway wall map for each branch, taking a set of locations that form the wall of each branch from the map and sampling the value in a virtual non-contrast image of the bronchial tree and, given a set of samples of pre-contrast densities, computing a value to yield a bronchial wall density for each branch to yield density measures for each branch, taking the set of locations that form the wall of each branch from the map and sampling the value in a contrast agent map of the bronchial tree and, given the set of samples of contrast agent intake, computing a value to yield a bronchial wall uptake for each branch to yield inflammation measures and using the density and inflammation measures to determine treatment or predict outcome for a patient.
