The medical risks for current or even former smokers have always been high, with diseases like lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease leading the way. And while doctors have long used ...

A Chinese research team has developed the world's first blood-based diagnostic kit that can tell whether lung nodules are ...

Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published today in Radiology: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The training process of the neural network involved clinical data and a CT scan (either single-phase or ...

Researchers at National Jewish Health evaluating computerized tomography (CT) scans of emphysema progression in the COPDGene ® study showed that, during a span of 10 years, participants with ...

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With most lung cancers in India diagnosed at advanced stages, experts say low-dose CT screening for high-risk groups like long-term smokers can help detect the disease early, improve survival, and ...

Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...