How will AI be utilized in chest imaging applications?

Marleen de Bruijne, PhD.

In COPD, AI algorithms can automate repetitive image segmentation tasks and discover new biomarkers for COPD, according to Marleen de Bruijne, PhD, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the University of Copenhagen.

Machine-learning algorithms are available that can provide automated quantification of airways.

“So we do not yet segment every single branch that is visible in the images, but we do get quite complete detections and reconstructions of airway trees,” de Bruijne said. “And once we have detected the airway trees,…