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Yoon-Hee Choi1, Dong Hyun Kim2, Eun-Tae Jeon3

  • 1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Soonchunhyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Scientific reports
|July 23, 2024
PubMed
概括

使用人工智能增强的CT扫描来评估胸部肌肉质量,可以预测严重肺炎患者的结果. 较高的肌肉质量与更好的输出成功和较低的死亡率相关,提供了一种新的预后工具.

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