Estimation of exercise tolerance in low dose sulphur mustard exposed cases with dyspnea using a novel estimation framework

Abstract

In chemical injured patients with pulmonary complications, asthma and continuous coughs are occurred regularly which are influenced on their daily activities. In order to evaluate their pulmonary functionality in fulfilling daily activities, two popular tests are done. The first one, CPET (Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test), checks the functionality of heart and lung during his/her activity. The second test, spirometry, evaluates lung's functionality during his/her rest time. However, CPET is more expensive than the spirometry test. On the other hand, it is too hard for most of the patients to fulfil the CPET. Therefore, we present a novel framework to estimate the CPET's parameters based on spirometry test's parameters. By using such a model, it is possible for all of the chemical injured patients to evaluate their pulmonary functionality easily and economically just by fulfilling spirometry test. In addition to estimation, the model can rank the most important spirometry parameters for estimation of the CPET's parameters.