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    • Computational biology
    • Medical imaging analysis
    • Statistical modeling

    Background:

    • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of death, necessitating better subtype identification for targeted treatments.
    • Current methods for analyzing emphysema from chest CT scans may not fully capture disease heterogeneity.
    • Understanding distinct disease progression trends is crucial for improving patient outcomes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop a novel Bayesian nonparametric model for disease subtype identification using disease trajectories.
    • To apply the model to quantitative emphysema measurements from chest CT scans in the COPDGene Study.
    • To identify distinct emphysema progression patterns and their associations with clinical and genetic factors.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a Bayesian nonparametric model incorporating disease trajectories and compositional data from medical images.
    • Applied the model to quantitative emphysema measurements from chest CT scans.
    • Utilized age, pack years, and smoking status as predictors in the model.
    • Performed five-fold cross-validation to compare predictive accuracy with ordinary least squares regression.

    Main Results:

    • Identified nine distinct emphysema subtypes with varying progression patterns.
    • The best-performing model included age, pack years, and smoking status as predictors.
    • Discovered significant associations between identified subtypes and seven COPD-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
    • The proposed model demonstrated superior predictive accuracy compared to multivariate ordinary least squares regression.

    Conclusions:

    • The novel Bayesian model effectively identifies COPD subtypes based on emphysema progression trajectories from CT scans.
    • The identified subtypes show significant genetic associations, offering potential for personalized medicine.
    • This approach bridges the gap between medical image analysis and population-level compositional trend analysis in disease research.