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Thirdly, a deep learning-based terminal region growing is adopted to extract terminal airways. Extensive experiments were conducted on two internal datasets and three public datasets. <jats:italic>Main Results.<\/jats:italic> Compared to the counterparts, the proposed method can achieve a higher branch detected, tree-length detected, branch ratio, and tree-length ratio (ISICDM2021 dataset, 95.19%, 94.89%, 166.45%, and 172.29%; binary airway segmentation dataset, 96.03%, 95.11%, 129.35%, and 137.00%). Ablation experiments show the effectiveness of three proposed solutions. Our method is applied to an in-house chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) dataset. The measures of branch count, tree length, endpoint count, airway volume, and airway surface area are significantly different between COPD severity stages. <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic> The proposed methods can segment more terminal bronchi and larger length of airway, even some bronchi which are real but missed in the manual annotation can be detected. 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