1) The document discusses computational assessment methods for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using medical imaging data. It covers topics like lung segmentation, lobe segmentation, airway measurement, vessel quantification, and texture-based emphysema quantification.
2) Various algorithms are presented for tasks like robust lung and lobe segmentation, left/right lung splitting, airway skeletonization and labeling, and classification of pulmonary arteries and veins.
3) Quantitative image analysis methods are discussed for measuring airway wall thickness, quantifying emphysema heterogeneity, and classifying COPD patterns based on texture and shape features.
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