The Lancet Digital Health
Chest X-ray model flags chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk
Adding chest images to clinical scoring better distinguished future cases from non-cases, with scores of 0.73 versus 0.66 in ever-smokers and 0.70 versus 0.60 in…Adding chest images to clinical scoring better distinguished future cases from non-cases, with scores of 0.73 versus 0.66 in ever-smokers and 0.70 versus 0.60 in never-smokers.
Cohort · 27,848 peopleChronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Who was studied27,848 outpatients without diagnosed COPD or lung cancer, 6 years
What changedCOPD prediction improved by 0·08 on the AUC scale when chest X-ray analysis was added to the clinical risk score
The catchThe model could flag existing undiagnosed COPD rather than future disease