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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
Vida Diagnostics, Inc., Coralville, IA (US);
Youbing Yin, Coralville, IA (US);
Philippe Raffy, Edina, MN (US);
Susan A. Wood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VIDA Diagnostics, Inc., Coralville, IA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for assessing lung function using volumetric images obtained at inspiration and expiration. The method may include processing the first and second set of images to identify known anatomical structures of the lungs, registering the first set of images to the second set of images to match voxels of the first set of images to voxels of the second set of images as matched pairs of inspiratory and expiratory voxels, calculating a continuous probability of a lung characteristic at a location of the matched pairs of voxels, and displaying the result on a display. The method may also include classifying lung tissue at each location as normal, having air trapping without emphysema, or being emphysematous.