Multiscale Imaging-based Cluster Analysis (MICA) - bridging individual and population scales of the human lungs

What is being modeled?
Lung structure and function in healthy, asthma and COPD populations
Description & purpose of resource

MICA is an imaging clustering analysis method that employs imaging-based metrics at local and global scales of the human lungs constructed from 3D computed tomography (CT) lung images to identify homogeneous subgroups, known as clusters, in healthy, asthma and COPD populations. It allows to bridge individual and population scales and explore the notion of cluster-guided computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis.

Spatial scales
tissue
organ
Temporal scales
weeks to months
human lifetime
This resource is currently
mature and useful in ongoing research
Key publications (e.g. describing or using resource)

Haghighi, B., S. Choi, J. Choi, E.A. Hoffman, A.P. Comellas, J.D. Newell Jr., C.H. Lee, R.G. Barr, E. Bleecker, C.B. Cooper, D. Couper, M. Han, N.N. Hansel, R.E. Kanner, E.A. Kazerooni1, E.A C Kleerup, F.J. Martinez, W. O’Neal, S.I Rennard, B.M. Smith, P.G. Woodruff, and C.-L. Lin, “Imaging-Based Clusters in Former Smokers of the COPD Cohort Associate with Clinical Characteristics: the SubPopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study (SPIROMICS),” Respiratory Research, 20(1):153, 2019.

Choi, J., L.J. LeBlanc, S. Choi, B. Haghighi, E.A. Hoffman, P. O’Shaughnessy, S.E. Wenzel, M. Castro, S. Fain, N. Jarjour, M.L. Schiebler, L. Denlinger, R. Delvadia, R. Walenga, A. Babiskin, C.-L. Lin, “Differences in Particle Deposition Between Members of Imaging-Based Asthma Clusters,” Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery, 32:1-11, 2019.

Haghighi, B., S. Choi, J. Choi, E.A. Hoffman, A.P. Comellas, J.D. Newell Jr., R.G. Barr, E. Bleecker, C.B. Cooper, D. Couper, M. Han, N.N. Hansel, R.E. Kanner, E.A. Kazerooni1, E.A C Kleerup, F.J. Martinez, W. O’Neal, S.I Rennard, P.G. Woodruff, and C.-L. Lin, “Imaging-Based Clusters in Current Smokers of the COPD Cohort Associate with Clinical Characteristics: the SubPopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study (SPIROMICS),” Respiratory Research, 19(1):178, 2018.

Lin, C.-L., S. Choi, B. Haghighi, J. Choi and E.A. Hoffman, “Cluster-Guided Multiscale Lung Modeling via Machine Learning,” Handbook of Materials Modeling: Applications: Current and Emerging Materials, Springer, page 1-20, 2018.

Choi, S., E.A. Hoffman, S.E. Wenzel, M. Castro, S.B. Fain, N.N. Jarjour, M.L. Schiebler, K. Chen, C.-L. Lin, for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Severe Asthma Research Program, “Quantitative computed tomography imaging-based clustering differentiates asthmatic subgroups with distinctive clinical phenotypes,” Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 140(3):690-700, 2017.

Collaborators
Ching-Long Lin
PI contact information
ching-long-lin@uiowa.edu
Keywords
machine learning
computed tomography
Lung model
Population
computational fluid dynamics
computational bioengineering
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Human airway branch variation and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

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Susceptibility to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) beyond cigarette smoking is incompletely understood, although several genetic variants associated with COPD are known to regulate airway branch development. We demonstrate that in vivo central airway branch variants are present in 26.5% of the general population, are unchanged over 10 y, and exhibit strong familial aggregation. The most common airway branch variant is associated with COPD in two cohorts (n = 5,054), with greater central airway bifurcation density, and with emphysema throughout the lung.

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