{
  "id": 169072,
  "title": "CTs are useless?",
  "url": "/competitions/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/169072",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2020-07-22T19:12:48.741577900Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>As I understood, we have only one (at week 0) scan of lungs for each patient, it means we can't use images as described in <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/165727\">Domain expert's insights</a>.  My impression is that scans don't have valuable information.....</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "940250",
      "postDate": "07/22/2020 19:12:48",
      "content": "<p>As I understood, we have only one (at week 0) scan of lungs for each patient, it means we can't use images as described in <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/165727\">Domain expert's insights</a>.  My impression is that scans don't have valuable information.....</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As I understood, we have only one (at week 0) scan of lungs for each patient, it means we can't use images as described in [Domain expert's insights](https://www.kaggle.com/c/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/165727).  My impression is that scans don't have valuable information.....",
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    },
    {
      "id": "940291",
      "postDate": "07/22/2020 19:56:43",
      "content": "<p>Dear <a href=\"/kopinhruk\">@kopinhruk</a>,</p>\n\n<p>you are right, on the first image I put in there it is showing 2 ct scans instead of only one in the beginning, I have to modify it (wanted to, but never got to it yet).</p>\n\n<p>Nonetheless what i describe in the text is how one could get additional features to determine the course of the disease from the baseline ct is valid for one and only initial scan to.</p>\n\n<p>It was not me who came up with the idea, there are plenty of studies that correlate image derived features with the progression of the disease!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Dear @kopinhruk,\n\nyou are right, on the first image I put in there it is showing 2 ct scans instead of only one in the beginning, I have to modify it (wanted to, but never got to it yet).\n\nNonetheless what i describe in the text is how one could get additional features to determine the course of the disease from the baseline ct is valid for one and only initial scan to.\n\nIt was not me who came up with the idea, there are plenty of studies that correlate image derived features with the progression of the disease!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "941832",
      "postDate": "07/23/2020 12:42:38",
      "content": "<p>Baseline CTs are definitely thought to contain valuable information and have been linked to disease progression and survival in IPF patients as shown <a href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30742809/\">here</a> and <a href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28947036\">here</a>.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Baseline CTs are definitely thought to contain valuable information and have been linked to disease progression and survival in IPF patients as shown [here](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30742809/) and [here](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28947036).",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 940291,
      "author_name": "sandorkonya",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/22/2020 19:56:43",
      "content": "<p>Dear <a href=\"/kopinhruk\">@kopinhruk</a>,</p>\n\n<p>you are right, on the first image I put in there it is showing 2 ct scans instead of only one in the beginning, I have to modify it (wanted to, but never got to it yet).</p>\n\n<p>Nonetheless what i describe in the text is how one could get additional features to determine the course of the disease from the baseline ct is valid for one and only initial scan to.</p>\n\n<p>It was not me who came up with the idea, there are plenty of studies that correlate image derived features with the progression of the disease!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 941832,
      "author_name": "jjinho",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/23/2020 12:42:38",
      "content": "<p>Baseline CTs are definitely thought to contain valuable information and have been linked to disease progression and survival in IPF patients as shown <a href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30742809/\">here</a> and <a href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28947036\">here</a>.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "940250": "As I understood, we have only one (at week 0) scan of lungs for each patient, it means we can't use images as described in [Domain expert's insights](https://www.kaggle.com/c/osic-pulmonary-fibrosis-progression/discussion/165727).  My impression is that scans don't have valuable information.....",
    "940291": "Dear @kopinhruk,\n\nyou are right, on the first image I put in there it is showing 2 ct scans instead of only one in the beginning, I have to modify it (wanted to, but never got to it yet).\n\nNonetheless what i describe in the text is how one could get additional features to determine the course of the disease from the baseline ct is valid for one and only initial scan to.\n\nIt was not me who came up with the idea, there are plenty of studies that correlate image derived features with the progression of the disease!",
    "941832": "Baseline CTs are definitely thought to contain valuable information and have been linked to disease progression and survival in IPF patients as shown [here](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30742809/) and [here](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28947036)."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}