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    • Pulmonary Medicine
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Medical Diagnostics

    Background:

    • Forced spirometry testing is expanding into primary care, but commercial devices often lack quality assurance for individual maneuvers.
    • There is a critical need for high-quality spirometry assessment beyond specialized pulmonary centers.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and optimize a supervised learning classifier for automated quality assessment of forced spirometry tests.
    • To create a system that mimics expert visual inspection of spirometry curves.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized supervised learning techniques to train a classifier on expert-classified forced spirometry tests.
    • The classifier was designed to analyze the shape of the spirometry curve, similar to expert visual inspection.
    • Evaluated the classifier's performance on a dedicated dataset, comparing it against expert performance and a rules-based method.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of 0.88.
    • Demonstrated high specificity (0.91 and 0.86) at relevant sensitivity levels (0.60 and 0.82).
    • Classifier performance closely matched expert levels and outperformed a previous rules-based approach.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed AI-driven method shows significant potential for improving the diagnostic quality of forced spirometry.
    • Integration into clinical workflows could lead to time savings, cost reduction, and enhanced remote care for chronic respiratory diseases.