Comparing cardiac ejection fraction estimation algorithms without a gold standard

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-337

  Kupinski, Matthew A ^a   Hoppin, John W ^b   Krasnow, Joshua ^c   Dahlberg, Seth ^c   Leppo, Jeffrey A ^c   King, Michael A ^c   Clarkson, Eric ^a   Barrett, Harrison H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac ejection fraction; Gold standard; Image quality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; HUMANS; STROKE VOLUME; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 32644479192     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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