Predicting Risk of Pulmonary Fibrosis Formation in PASC Patients
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| author | Dou, Wanying Durak, Gorkem Biswas, Koushik Hong, Ziliang Bejar, Andrea Mia Keles, Elif Akin, Kaan Erturk, Sukru Mehmet Medetalibeyoglu, Alpay Sala, Marc Misharin, Alexander Savas, Hatice Salvatore, Mary Jambawalikar, Sachin Torigian, Drew Udupa, Jayaram K. Bagci, Ulas |
| author_facet | Dou, Wanying Durak, Gorkem Biswas, Koushik Hong, Ziliang Bejar, Andrea Mia Keles, Elif Akin, Kaan Erturk, Sukru Mehmet Medetalibeyoglu, Alpay Sala, Marc Misharin, Alexander Savas, Hatice Salvatore, Mary Jambawalikar, Sachin Torigian, Drew Udupa, Jayaram K. Bagci, Ulas |
| contents | While the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, its long-term effects persist through Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), commonly known as Long COVID. There remains substantial uncertainty regarding both its duration and optimal management strategies. PASC manifests as a diverse array of persistent or newly emerging symptoms--ranging from fatigue, dyspnea, and neurologic impairments (e.g., brain fog), to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal abnormalities--that extend beyond the acute infection phase. This heterogeneous presentation poses substantial challenges for clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In this paper, we focus on imaging findings that may suggest fibrotic damage in the lungs, a critical manifestation characterized by scarring of lung tissue, which can potentially affect long-term respiratory function in patients with PASC. This study introduces a novel multi-center chest CT analysis framework that combines deep learning and radiomics for fibrosis prediction. Our approach leverages convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and interpretable feature extraction, achieving 82.2% accuracy and 85.5% AUC in classification tasks. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Grad-CAM visualization and radiomics-based feature analysis in providing clinically relevant insights for PASC-related lung fibrosis prediction. Our findings highlight the potential of deep learning-driven computational methods for early detection and risk assessment of PASC-related lung fibrosis--presented for the first time in the literature. |
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| spellingShingle | Predicting Risk of Pulmonary Fibrosis Formation in PASC Patients Dou, Wanying Durak, Gorkem Biswas, Koushik Hong, Ziliang Bejar, Andrea Mia Keles, Elif Akin, Kaan Erturk, Sukru Mehmet Medetalibeyoglu, Alpay Sala, Marc Misharin, Alexander Savas, Hatice Salvatore, Mary Jambawalikar, Sachin Torigian, Drew Udupa, Jayaram K. Bagci, Ulas Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition While the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, its long-term effects persist through Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), commonly known as Long COVID. There remains substantial uncertainty regarding both its duration and optimal management strategies. PASC manifests as a diverse array of persistent or newly emerging symptoms--ranging from fatigue, dyspnea, and neurologic impairments (e.g., brain fog), to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and musculoskeletal abnormalities--that extend beyond the acute infection phase. This heterogeneous presentation poses substantial challenges for clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. In this paper, we focus on imaging findings that may suggest fibrotic damage in the lungs, a critical manifestation characterized by scarring of lung tissue, which can potentially affect long-term respiratory function in patients with PASC. This study introduces a novel multi-center chest CT analysis framework that combines deep learning and radiomics for fibrosis prediction. Our approach leverages convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and interpretable feature extraction, achieving 82.2% accuracy and 85.5% AUC in classification tasks. We demonstrate the effectiveness of Grad-CAM visualization and radiomics-based feature analysis in providing clinically relevant insights for PASC-related lung fibrosis prediction. Our findings highlight the potential of deep learning-driven computational methods for early detection and risk assessment of PASC-related lung fibrosis--presented for the first time in the literature. |
| title | Predicting Risk of Pulmonary Fibrosis Formation in PASC Patients |
| topic | Image and Video Processing Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10691 |