Harm Tiddens
Chief Medical Officer Thirona
Harm Tiddens is Chief Medical Officer at Thirona and Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Pulmonology and Radiology at Erasmus MC. As an internationally recognized expert in quantitative chest imaging, he has contributed to the development and validation of AI-enabled imaging metrics for cystic fibrosis, COPD, and other chronic lung diseases. With more than 270 peer-reviewed publications and 28 book chapters, Professor Tiddens brings clinical, patient, and scientific perspectives to respiratory therapy development. He co-founded the European Cystic Fibrosis Society Clinical Trial Network and established the Erasmus MC LungAnalysis laboratory in The Netherlands.
Seminars
Tuesday 15th September 2026
AI-Based Mucus Analysis: From Automated Quantification at Scale to Multidimensional Patient Phenotyping, Treatment Response & Disease Progression Monitoring
2:00 pm
- How does fully automated AI enable reproducible mucus plug assessment across large cohorts, and what does validation in real-world COPD and other lung disease data tell us about its robustness?
- How can mucus analysis, combined with complementary structural CT metrics, better characterize COPD heterogeneity and patient phenotypes?
- How can sensitive quantitative CT measurements detect subtle changes over time to assess early treatment response and advance disease progression prediction?
