Kinser, JasonAcharya, Mekhala2013-03-212013-03-212012https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8068There are diagnostic challenges in the evaluation of a patient with a known or suspected diagnosis of interstitial lung disease [ILD] because of the extensive possibilities of diverse potential diagnoses with similar symptoms. High-Resolution Computed Tomography (HRCT) has changed the diagnostic evaluation of patients with ILD and is particularly useful in the diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary brosis (IPF). According to NIH, IPF is a disease in which over a period of time the lung tissue becomes thickened, stiff and scarred. The characteristic HRCT findings of IPF are reticular abnormality and honeycombing with basal and peripheral predominance and the radiographic pattern diers with the stage of the disease.141 pagesenCopyright 2012 Mekhala AcharyaBioinformaticsBiostatisticsFast analog associative memoryHigh resolution computed tomographyIdiopathic pulmonary FibrosisIntersecting cortical modelPulse coupled neural networkDissertation