Automated CT Staging of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Severity for Predicting Disease Progression and Mortality with a Deep Learning Convolutional Neural Network

Abstract

Automated CT algorithms can facilitate staging of COPD severity, have diagnostic performance comparable with that of spirometric GOLD staging, and provide further prognostic value when used in conjunction with GOLD staging.<i>Supplemental material is available for this article.</i>© RSNA, 2021See also commentary by Kalra and Ebrahimian in this issue.