About 25% of lung cancer cases worldwide are not attributable ... smokers target the distal airways and favour adenocarcinoma histology. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a relatively weak ...

With obstructive lung disease (asthma or COPD), an even greater ... In contrast, those particles able to penetrate to the very small airways and alveoli are likely to be deposited by sedimentation ...

In this work, we aimed to increase the performance in classifying the said lung patterns, specifically for cardiomegaly and hyperaeration. Using texture-based features, the developed system was able ...