Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.

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Main Author: Binder, Polina
Other Authors: Polina Golland.
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Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105678
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spelling mit-1721.1/1056782019-04-11T01:57:03Z Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort Binder, Polina Polina Golland. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47). Emphysema is one of the hallmarks of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a devastating lung disease often caused by smoking. Emphysema appears on Computed Tomography (CT) scans as a variety of textures that correlate with the disease subtypes. It has been shown that the disease subtypes and the lung texture are linked to physiological indicators and prognosis, although neither is well characterized clinically. Most previous computational approaches to modeling emphysema imaging data have focused on supervised classification of lung textures in patches of CT scans. In this work, we describe a generative model that jointly captures heterogeneity of disease subtypes and of the patient population. We also derive a corresponding inference algorithm that simultaneously discovers disease subtypes and population structure in an unsupervised manner. This approach enables us to create image-based descriptors of emphysema beyond those that can be identified through manual labeling of currently defined phenotypes. By applying the resulting algorithm to a large data set, we identify groups of patients and disease subtypes that correlate with distinct physiological indicators. by Polina Binder. S.M. 2016-12-05T19:57:40Z 2016-12-05T19:57:40Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105678 964450467 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 47 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Binder, Polina
Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title_full Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title_fullStr Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title_full_unstemmed Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title_short Unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
title_sort unsupervised discovery of emphysema subtypes in a large clinical cohort
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105678
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