Lin, Qiuxi
Zhang, Ziyi
Xiong, Xirui
Chen, Xilai
Ma, Ting
Chen, Yibin
Li, Ting
Long, Zhenchu
Luo, Qun
Sun, Yan
Jiang, Lihong
He, Wei
Funding for this research was provided by:
Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Program key projects (No. 2023A03J0359)
Guangdong Medical Research Foundation (C2022102)
Article History
Received: 18 December 2024
Revised: 6 March 2025
Accepted: 9 April 2025
First Online: 8 May 2025
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yu Deng.
: Wei He is affiliated with AIDepth Shanghai Co. The remaining authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: This was a retrospective study. Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. Ethical approval was granted by the Institutional Review Board at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Medical Research Ethics Review 2022 no.168).
: The CT data of the validation set in this study were collected from 51 patients with IPAF and 14 patients with IPF who had been enrolled as subjects in a study on IPAF, which investigates the differences in cytokine profiles between bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and serum, as well as their impact on PPF. The study has been previously reported in Rheumatology, 2023 [ ] .
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