Optimizing airway wall segmentation and quantification by reducing the influence of adjacent vessels and intravascular contrast material with a modified integral-based algorithm in quantitative computed tomography

• Philip Konietzke ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: philip.konietzke@med.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8580-6721

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• Oliver Weinheimer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Willi L. Wagner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Felix Wuennemann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Christian Hintze,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany, Department of Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, Radiologie Rein-Nahe, Bingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7384-9107

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• Juergen Biederer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Claus P. Heussel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Hans-Ulrich Kauczor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Mark O. Wielpütz

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology with Nuclear Medicine, Thoraxklinik at University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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