New Lung Imaging Findings in Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Samuel Y. Ash 1, George R. Washko 1
1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
*Correspondence: George R. Washko, Email not available
Abstract
Rapid advances in image analysis technology have revealed new insights into chronic respiratory disease. In the approximately one hundred years since the first medical use of X-rays, visual, or qualitative, analysis of images acquired using traditional radiography as well as computed tomography and other modalities like magnetic resonance imaging have dramatically altered how we diagnose and care for patients with lung diseases. More recently, utilizing ever increasing computational power, the quantitative analysis of medical imaging, especially computed tomography, has further enhanced our understanding of chronic respiratory diseases. Herein we summarize some of the recent findings in the medical imaging of lung diseases, emphasizing quantitative analysis in particular.
