{"id":1151,"date":"2019-02-04T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2019-03-13T03:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:49:51","slug":"vineet-publishes-a-first-author-paper-in-thorax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Vineet&#8217;s first author paper is accepted in Thorax!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1153 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-213x150.jpg 213w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Fig2_LCCM.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VineetRaghu100X140.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-246 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/VineetRaghu100X140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his manuscript by the medical journal\u00a0<em><strong>Thorax<\/strong><\/em>! \u00a0The paper is entitled &#8220;<em>Feasibility of lung cancer prediction from low-dose CT scan and smoking factors using causal models<\/em>&#8221; and it presents LCCM (Lung Cancer Causal Model), a new predictor of cancer nodules from low-dose CT scan data and clinical variables. \u00a0LCCM improves on current state-of-the-art models and, based on the results in our validation cohort, it could reduce substantially the unnecessary follow up screenings of people with benign nodules.<\/p>\n[UPDATE 2019-03-12] The paper is now freely available from the\u00a0<em>Thorax<\/em> web site. (<a href=\"https:\/\/thorax.bmj.com\/content\/thoraxjnl\/early\/2019\/03\/12\/thoraxjnl-2018-212638.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n[UPDATE 2019-03-12] UPMC Press Release for this paper. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upmc.com\/media\/news\/031219-lung-ca-machine-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Vineet for the acceptance of his manuscript by the medical journal\u00a0Thorax! \u00a0The paper is entitled &#8220;Feasibility of lung cancer prediction from low-dose CT scan and smoking factors using causal models&#8221; and it presents LCCM (Lung Cancer Causal Model), a new predictor of cancer nodules from low-dose CT scan &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/?p=1151\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csbweb.csb.pitt.edu\/Faculty\/benos\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}