An accurate and reproducible scheme for quantification of coronary artery Calcification in CT Scans

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 26 III, Issue , 2004, Pages 1918-1921

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a   Ye, Xujiong ^a   Wang, Frank ^a   Yu Lin, Xin ^a   Abaci, M ^a   Siddique, M M ^a   Qanadli, S D ^b  

^a Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agatston score; Coronary artery calcification; Modified expectation maximisation; Partial volume effects

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; NOISE ABATEMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAYS;

AGATSTON SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; MODIFIED EXPECTATION-MAXIMIZATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 11144269023     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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