Zaigham Saghir

Zaigham Saghir

Clinical Associate Professor

Member of:

  • Internal Medicine: Respiratory Medicine


Publication year:
  1. 2024
  2. Accepted/In press

    Enhancing a deep learning model for pulmonary nodule malignancy risk estimation in chest CT with uncertainty estimation

    Peeters, D., Alves, N., Venkadesh, K. V., Dinnessen, R., Saghir, Zaigham, Scholten, E. T., Schaefer-Prokop, C., Vliegenthart, R., Prokop, M. & Jacobs, C., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: European Radiology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. 2023
  4. Published

    Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial

    Sidorenkov, G., Stadhouders, R., Jacobs, C., Mohamed Hoesein, F. A. A., Gietema, H. A., Nackaerts, K., Saghir, Z., Heuvelmans, M. A., Donker, H. C., Aerts, J. G., Vermeulen, R., Uitterlinden, A., Lenters, V., van Rooij, J., Schaefer-Prokop, C., Groen, H. J. M., de Jong, P. A., Cornelissen, R., Prokop, M., de Bock, G. H. & 1 others, Vliegenthart, R., 2023, In: European Journal of Epidemiology. 38, 4, p. 445-454 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Prediction Variability to Identify Reduced AI Performance in Cancer Diagnosis at MRI and CT

    Alves, N., Bosma, J. S., Venkadesh, K. V., Jacobs, C., Saghir, Zaigham, de Rooij, M., Hermans, J. & Huisman, H., 2023, In: Radiology. 308, 3, 11 p., e230275.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Prior CT Improves Deep Learning for Malignancy Risk Estimation of Screening-detected Pulmonary Nodules

    Vaidhya Venkadesh, K., Aleef, T. A., Scholten, E. T., Saghir, Zaigham, Silva, M., Sverzellati, N., Pastorino, U., van Ginneken, B., Prokop, M. & Jacobs, C., 2023, In: Radiology. 308, 2, p. e223308

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    The Validity of a New Procedure-Based Definition of Cancer Status in Patients with Breast-, Lung-and Colorectal Cancer in the Danish National Patient Registry

    Nielsen, S. K., Nouhravesh, N., Jensen, M. H., Jensen, R. F. G., Klein, Mads Falk, Saghir, Zaigham, Nielsen, D., Schou, Morten & Lamberts, Morten Kjøbek, 2023, In: Clinical Epidemiology. 15, p. 483-491 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    Intrapleural fibrinolysis and DNase versus video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for the treatment of pleural empyema (FIVERVATS): Protocol for a randomised, controlled trial - Surgery as first-line treatment

    Christensen, T. D., Bendixen, M., Skaarup, S. H., Jensen , Jens-Ulrik Stæhr , Petersen, René Horsleben, Christensen, M., Licht, P., Neckelmann, K., Bibby, B. M., Møller, L. B., Bodtger, U., Borg, M. H., Saghir, Zaigham, Langfeldt, S., Harders, S. M. W., Bedawi, E. O., Naidu, B., Rahman, N. & Laursen, C. B., 2022, In: BMJ Open. 12, 3, e054236.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Risk of Malignancy in Patients with Asthma‐COPD Overlap Compared to Patients with COPD without Asthma

    Bonnesen, B., Sivapalan, P., Jordan, A., Pedersen, J. W., Bergsøe, C. M., Eklöf, J., Toennesen, L. L., Jensen, Sidse Graff, Naqibullah, M., Saghir, Zaigham & Jensen , Jens-Ulrik Stæhr , 2022, In: Biomedicines. 10, 7, 1463.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. 2021
  12. Published

    Automatic airway segmentation from computed tomography using robust and efficient 3-D convolutional neural networks

    Garcia-uceda, A., Selvan, Raghav, Saghir, Zaigham, Tiddens, H. A. W. M. & de Bruijne, Marleen, 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 1, 15 p., 16001.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    Creating a training set for artificial intelligence from initial segmentations of airways

    Dudurych, I., Garcia-Uceda, A., Saghir, Zaigham, Tiddens, H. A. W. M., Vliegenthart, R. & de Bruijne, Marleen, 2021, In: European radiology experimental. 5, 1, 7 p., 54.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Deep learning for malignancy risk estimation of pulmonary nodules detected at low-dose screening CT

    Venkadesh, K. V., Setio, A. A. A., Schreuder, A., Scholten, E. T., Chung, K., Wille, M. M. W., Saghir, Zaigham, van Ginneken, B., Prokop, M. & Jacobs, C., 2021, In: Radiology. 300, 2, p. 438-447 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation in patients who use methotrexate—a nationwide study of 58,580 outpatients

    Bergsøe, C. M., Sivapalan, P., Saeed, M. I., Eklöf, J., Saghir, Zaigham, Sørensen, R., Biering-Sørensen, Tor & Jensen , Jens-Ulrik Stæhr , 2021, In: Biomedicines. 9, 6, 604.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. 2020
  17. Published

    Increased respiratory morbidity in individuals with interstitial lung abnormalities

    Hoyer, N., Thomsen, L. H., Wille, M. M. W., Wilcke, T., Dirksen, A., Pedersen, J. H., Saghir, Zaigham, Ashraf, H. & Shaker, Saher Burhan, 19 Mar 2020, In: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. 20, 1, 10 p., 67.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  18. Published

    Classification of Volumetric Images Using Multi-Instance Learning and Extreme Value Theorem

    Tennakoon, R., Bortsova, G., Orting, S., Gostar, A. K., Wille, M. M. W., Saghir, Zaigham, Hoseinnezhad, R., de Bruijne, Marleen & Bab-Hadiashar, A., 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 39, 4, p. 854-865

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Growth of the thoracic aorta in the smoking population: The Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial

    Bons, L. R., Sedghi Gamechi, Z., Thijssen, C. G. E., Kofoed, Klaus Fuglsang, Pedersen, J. H., Saghir, Zaigham, Takkenberg, J. J. M., Kardys, I., Budde, R. P. J., de Bruijne, Marleen & Roos-Hesselink, J. W., 2020, In: International Journal of Cardiology. 299, p. 276-281

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  20. Published

    Recommendations for Implementing Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography in Europe

    Veronesi, G., Baldwin, D. R., Henschke, C. I., Ghislandi, S., Iavicoli, S., Oudkerk, M., De Koning, H. J., Shemesh, J., Field, J. K., Zulueta, J. J., Horgan, D., Fiestas Navarrete, L., Valentino Infante, M., Novellis, P., Murray, R. L., Peled, N., Rampinelli, C., Rocco, G., Rzyman, W., Scagliotti, G. V. & 17 others, Tammemagi, M. C., Bertolaccini, L., Triphuridet, N., Yip, R., Rossi, A., Senan, S., Ferrante, G., Brain, K., van der Aalst, C., Bonomo, L., Consonni, D., Van Meerbeeck, J. P., Maisonneuve, P., Novello, S., Devaraj, A., Saghir, Zaigham & Pelosi, G., 2020, In: Cancers. 12, 6, 24 p., 1672.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  21. Published

    Surveillance With PET/CT and Liquid Biopsies of Stage I-III Lung Cancer Patients After Completion of Definitive Therapy: A Randomized Controlled Trial (SUPER)

    Skougaard, K., Østrup, O., Guldbrandsen, K., Sørensen, B., Meldgaard, P., Saghir, Zaigham, Gørtz, P., Lonsdale, M. N., Frank, M. S., Gerke, O., Rychwicka-Kielek, B. A., Persson, Gitte F., Land, L. H., Schytte, T., Bodtger, U., Skuladottir, H., Søgaard, J., Nielsen, S. S., Rasmussen, T. R. & Fischer, Barbara Malene Bjerregaard, 2020, In: Clinical Lung Cancer. 21, 2, p. e61-e64

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. 2019
  23. Published

    A joint 3D UNet-Graph Neural Network-based method for Airway Segmentation from chest CTs

    Juarez, A. G., Selvan, Raghav, Saghir, Zaigham & de Bruijne, Marleen, 22 Aug 2019, Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 10th International Workshop, MLMI 2019, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2019, Shenzhen, China, October 13, 2019, Proceedings. Springer, p. 583-591 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. LNCS 11861).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingArticle in proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    'Reduced' HUNT model outperforms NLST and NELSON study criteria in predicting lung cancer in the Danish screening trial

    Røe, O. D., Markaki, M., Tsamardinos, I., Lagani, V., Nguyen, O. T. D., Pedersen, J. H., Saghir, Zaigham & Ashraf, H. G., 2019, In: BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 6, 1, 9 p., e000512.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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