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20% of all #respiratory #deaths can be attributed to early childhood lower respiratory tract infections. The most common cause of respiratory death is #COPD (60%), followed by #pneumonia (13%). thelancet.com/journals/lance…

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A win for opportunistic #screening for #COPD. AUCs of 0.87-0.90 on standard & low dose CT using Radiomics! #UABLungImagingLab Great work ap praneeth reddy pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra… Radiology ATS Clinical Problems Assembly NIH NHLBI Sandeep Bodduluri UAB Pulmonary

When I tell people children are being slaughtered, and they want to know which children before moving into outrage mode or justification mode - that mentality, that conditional humanity, is exactly the problem.

Battle of the Backbones: A Large-Scale Comparison of Pretrained Models across Computer Vision Tasks abs: arxiv.org/abs/2310.19909 code: github.com/hsouri/Battle-… This new paper from Tom Goldstein's lab does a very comprehensive performance comparison of a bunch of pretrained

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I keep reminding vision & ML colleagues that when measuring images/video quality, one can’t always improve numerical & perceptual fidelity together - they must be traded. This is important, yet often forgotten Y. Blau & T. Michaeli, “The Perception-Distortion Tradeoff" CVPR 2018

On the association of cumulative loneliness and all-cause mortality pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… PNASNews Lindsay Kobayashi Xuexin Yu Michigan Public Health

🔥Controversy on how best to define low FEV1/FVC #COPD. Adjusting for race is out. Sex and height contribute little. Age is a risk factor for COPD. Unadjusted LLN for FEV1/FVC ratio is..... 0.70! New pub in ATS Blue Journal American Thoracic Society (ATS) Arie Nakhmani Sandeep Bodduluri GOLD COPD

This is fascinating- same paper sent out to huge pool of reviewers under different names. 23% recommended “reject” when a prominent researcher was the only author shown, 48% when the paper was anonymized, and 65% when a little-known author was the only author shown

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1/2 The Center for Lung Analytics and Imaging Research (#CLAIR) is off to a great start! In the ERS publications, we show that a deviation from the expected exponential increase in airway CSA from trachea to periphery can be quantified using the Airway Tapering Slope #COPD

New paper from #CLAIR to predict emphysema progression and detect rapid progressors using radiomics #COPD atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.151… Pratim Saha Sandeep Bodduluri Arie Nakhmani Faizyab (he/him/his) Joe Reinhardt NIH NHLBI American Thoracic Society (ATS) Annals of the ATS

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Social isolation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was independently associated with increased mortality. ja.ma/4es5D3r

This is one of the deepest and most beautiful equations in all of statistics in my opinion.