Integrating Deep Learning CT-scan Model, Biological and Clinical Variables to Predict Severity of Asthma in Children

Status: Recruiting
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Study Type: Observational
SUMMARY

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers substantial opportunities for healthcare, supporting better diagnosis, treatment, prevention and personalized care. Analysis of health images is one of the most promising fields for applying AI in healthcare, contributing to better prediction, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Deep learning (DL) is currently one of the most powerful machine learning techniques. DL algorithms are able to learn from raw (or with little pre-processing) input data and build by themselves sophisticated abstract feature representations (useful patterns) that enable very accurate task decision making. Recently, DL has shown promising results in assisting lung disease analysis using computed tomography (CT) images. Current severe asthma guidelines recommend high-resolution and multidetector CT as a tool for disease evaluation. CT scans contain prognostic information, as the presence of bronchial wall thickening, air trapping, bronchial luminal narrowing, and bronchiectasis are associated with longer disease duration and disease severity in adults. Only a small number of studies have reported chest CT findings in children with severe asthma, and their relationship to clinical and pathobiological parameters yielded inconsistent results. Thus, to which extent CT scans add prognostic information beyond what can be inferred from clinical and biological data is still unresolved in children. The project is expected to build an DL-severity score to prognoses severe evolution for children with asthma, using a DL model to capture CT scan prognosis information.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 6
Maximum Age: 17
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• age 6-17 years

• confirmed diagnosis of severe asthma according to ERS/ATS guidelines

Locations
Other Locations
Italy
IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
RECRUITING
Pavia
Contact Information
Primary
Amelia Licari, MD
a.licari@smatteo.pv.it
+39(0)382502629
Time Frame
Start Date: 2021-01-20
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-06-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 25
Treatments
Group 1
Children with severe asthma
Group 2
Children who undergo chest CT scan for other reasons than asthma
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Istituto per la Ricerca e l'Innovazione Biomedica, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Leads: Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo di Pavia

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