Quantitative Imaging to Illuminate Cardiovascular Risk in COPD—Progress, Context, and the Path Ahead
Vanesa Bellou · 2025
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Description
Vanesa Bellou discusses a study that uses chest scans to flag hidden heart disease in people with chronic lung disease. Lung disease and heart disease often occur together, yet heart problems are missed because breathlessness gets blamed on the lungs alone. Most people with severe lung disease never get a heart diagnosis.
The study built a scoring chart from health data plus deep features pulled from routine chest scans by computer methods. Blending all inputs beat health data alone at sorting risk, and results held up at two other centers. Bellou praises the use of scans already taken for lung care. She maps what must happen before such a tool guides real clinic choices.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Vanesa Bellou |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 13 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |