Clinical-ultrasonographic Assessment of Pulmonary Emphysema

"Ultrasonographic findings will be obtained with clinical machines. Additionally, US scans as acquired with the Ula-Op open research platform will also be gathered. For both scanners, 10seconds videos will be recorded and stored in each landmark.~To correlate LUS artefactual patterns with peripheral parenchymal changes evaluated by HRCT of the chest, all chest CT findings will be analysed by an image processing platform designed to provide visualization and quantification of areas with abnormal CT tissue density indicative of emphysema and air trapping. Post-processing image analysis will be performed on images by using automated detection of potential emphysema systems."