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Overview

Eric A. Hoffman is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a strong focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientist's work covers several specialized subfields, including:

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Physiology
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Epidemiology

Eric A. Hoffman has contributed extensively to topics related to respiratory health, most notably in:

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging

Their research has appeared frequently in established publication venues, including:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • CHEST Journal
  • UNC Libraries
  • Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some of the recent papers featuring contributions related to pneumonia, fibrosis, and respiratory conditions include:

  • Clinical Characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Pulmonary fibrosis 4 months after COVID-19 is associated with severity of illness and blood leucocyte telomere length, 2021, Thorax
  • Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Association of Dysanapsis With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Older Adults, 2020, JAMA
  • Airway mucin MUC5AC and MUC5B concentrations and the initiation and progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort, 2021, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Frequently collaborating with Eric A. Hoffman are other researchers active in respiratory and pulmonary medicine, such as:

  • Alejandro P. Comellas
  • R. Graham Barr
  • MeiLan K. Han
  • Prescott G. Woodruff
  • Nadia N. Hansel

Best Publications

  • The Lung Image Database Consortium (LIDC) and Image Database Resource Initiative (IDRI): a completed reference database of lung nodules on CT scans.

    Samuel G. Armato;Geoffrey McLennan;Luc Bidaut;Michael F. McNitt-Gray

  • The [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose method for the measurement of local cerebral glucose utilization in man.

    M Reivich;D Kuhl;A Wolf;J Greenberg

  • Automatic lung segmentation for accurate quantitation of volumetric X-ray CT images

    S. Hu;E.A. Hoffman;J.M. Reinhardt

  • The national lung screening trial: Overview and study design

    Constantine A. Gatsonis;Denise R. Aberle;Christine D. Berg;William C. Black

  • Upper airway and soft tissue anatomy in normal subjects and patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Significance of the lateral pharyngeal walls.

    R J Schwab;K B Gupta;W B Gefter;L J Metzger

  • Clinical Significance of Symptoms in Smokers with Preserved Pulmonary Function

    Prescott G. Woodruff;R. Graham Barr;Eugene Bleecker;Stephanie A. Christenson

  • Future research directions in acute lung injury: Summary of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group

    Michael A. Matthay;Guy A. Zimmerman;Charles Esmon;Jahar Bhattacharya

  • Percent emphysema, airflow obstruction, and impaired left ventricular filling.

    R. Graham Barr;David A. Bluemke;Firas S. Ahmed;J. Jeffery Carr

  • Dynamic Upper Airway Imaging during Awake Respiration in Normal Subjects and Patients with Sleep Disordered Breathing

    Richard J. Schwab;Warren B. Gefter;Eric A. Hoffman;Krishanu B. Gupta

  • Vocal tract area functions from magnetic resonance imaging

    Brad H. Story;Ingo R. Titze;Eric A. Hoffman

  • Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction

    Eleanor M. Dunican;Brett M. Elicker;David S. Gierada;Scott K. Nagle

  • CT-Definable Subtypes of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Statement of the Fleischner Society.

    David A. Lynch;John H M Austin;John H M Austin;James C. Hogg;Philippe A. Grenier

  • Predictors of mortality in patients with emphysema and severe airflow obstruction.

    Fernando J. Martinez;Gregory Foster;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Gerard Criner

  • Interstitial lung disease: A quantitative study using the adaptive multiple feature method.

    Renuka Uppaluri;Eric A. Hoffman;Milan Sonka;Gary W. Hunninghake

  • Lung image database consortium: developing a resource for the medical imaging research community.

    Samuel G. Armato;Geoffrey McLennan;Michael F. McNitt-Gray;Charles R. Meyer

  • CT-based geometry analysis and finite element models of the human and ovine bronchial tree

    Merryn H Tawhai;Peter J Hunter;Juerg Tschirren;Joseph M Reinhardt

  • Intrathoracic airway trees: segmentation and airway morphology analysis from low-dose CT scans

    J. Tschirren;E.A. Hoffman;G. McLennan;M. Sonka

  • Sex Differences in Severe Pulmonary Emphysema

    Fernando J. Martinez;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Frank Sciurba;Jeanette Alane Mumford

  • Impaired mucus detachment disrupts mucociliary transport in a piglet model of cystic fibrosis

    Mark J. Hoegger;Anthony J. Fischer;James D. McMenimen;Lynda S. Ostedgaard

  • Characteristics of the turbulent laryngeal jet and its effect on airflow in the human intra-thoracic airways

    Ching-Long Lin;Merryn H. Tawhai;Geoffrey McLennan;Eric A. Hoffman

Frequent Co-Authors

R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr Columbia University
Ching-Long Lin
Ching-Long Lin University of Iowa
Fernando J. Martinez
Fernando J. Martinez University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Joseph M. Reinhardt
Joseph M. Reinhardt University of Iowa
Nadia N. Hansel
Nadia N. Hansel Johns Hopkins University
MeiLan K. Han
MeiLan K. Han University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark T. Dransfield
Mark T. Dransfield University of Alabama at Birmingham
Merryn H. Tawhai
Merryn H. Tawhai University of Auckland
Prescott G. Woodruff
Prescott G. Woodruff University of California, San Francisco
Milan Sonka
Milan Sonka University of Iowa

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