Proposal: Extension for recurrent lung infections

[mady27]

Project Description

Yes, in fact the clinical problem is that in our context we often receive patients who have repeated infectious episodes. So, to assess the severity of the pulmonary involvement on the X-ray, it is difficult for us to know the limit between the old and the new lesions, especially since the patients often lose the previous images.

Thus with the 3d slicer, by making a comparative study between the old and recent lesions, one can create an extension capable from the thresholding, of coloring the zones differently.

This can be of great use to us!

[drouin-simon]

Hi @mady27, if you have time, please join one of the PW preparation meetings (every Tuesday at 10 EST). We will give you a minute or two to introduce your project and it might help finding collaborators.

[curtislisle]

I have done some work with radiomics (extracting numerical features) from lung CT scans. It is possible the radiomics values of early and later X-ray scans could be compared and a model trained to separate healthy from diseased state. I haven't looked, but I am sure there are papers on similar approaches.

[jcfr]

If it makes sense, would it be possible to update the project page with additional details.

In the project description it is mentioned the following:

In order to use the extension in pulmonology to correlate a recent symptomatology with an X-ray image having images related to old infections

Question: Is there already an existing extension or was the original plan to develop a new extension ?

References:

• https://github.com/NA-MIC/ProjectWeek/edit/master/PW39_2023_Montreal/Projects/ExtensionForRecurrentLungInfections/README.md
• https://projectweek.na-mic.org/PW39_2023_Montreal/Projects/ExtensionForRecurrentLungInfections/

[jcfr]

:eyes: Friendly ping

[mady27]

It's an original extension project