Diagnosis Of Interstitial Lung Disease By Pattern Classification

Classification of Interstitial Lung Disease

IdIopAthIc InterstItIAl pneumonIAs The terminology of idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIP) varies from country to country and is often confusing. It is called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in the United States,7 cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis (CFA) in the United Kingdom8 or idiopathic interstitial pneumonia in Japan.9 In our country, it is termed either as IPF or CFA. The landmark c...

[Videothoracoscopic lung biopsy in the diagnosis of interstitial lung disease].

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is a diagnostic method, used with increasing frequency in recent years, in the diagnosis of interstitial lung diseases. There are significant differences in the diagnosis of diseases which are diagnosed with clinical, biochemical and radiological investigation and with pathological evaluation of material obtained by VATS. In our study, five patients w...

Diagnosis of interstitial lung disease by a percutaneous lung biopsy sample.

A percutaneous lung biopsy sample was used to diagnose interstitial lung disease in nine children aged less than 42 months. Fibrosing alveolitis was diagnosed in eight children and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in one child. Complications associated with the procedure were minimal and the results of the biopsy sample enabled each child to be treated appropriately.

Optimization Strategies for Interactive Classification of Interstitial Lung Disease Textures

1 Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2 Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, 3 Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 4 Department of Radiology, Meander Medical Center, Amersfoort, Netherlands, 5 Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboudumc, N...

The importance of diagnosis in interstitial lung disease.