no code implementations • 5 Apr 2018 • Stojan Trajanovski, Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Christine Leon Swisher, Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Rafael Wiemker, Tobias Klinder, Amir Tahmasebi, Shawn M. Regis, Christoph Wald, Brady J. McKee, Sebastian Flacke, Heber MacMahon, Homer Pien
Importance: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the US, responsible for more deaths than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined and it has been recently demonstrated that low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening of the chest can significantly reduce this death rate.