All longitudinal pulmonary function tests were obtained from diagnosis to time of censor. Treatment with an IPF-specific antifibrotic medication (pirfenidone or nintedanib), was recorded at time of ...

Usually the method of selecting clients for federated learning is random, some studies have studied this problem from aspects of client data quality, model training effect, communication and computing ...

2. Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs): Restrictive ventilatory defect (reduced forced vital capacity [FVC] with preserved FEV1/FVC ratio). Decreased diffusion capacity of the lungs for carbon ...

in exhaled breath have shown promise as biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). We analysed breath from 57 people with IPF using thermal desorption–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry to ...