Volumetric quantification of atherosclerotic plaque in CT considering partial volume effect

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-282

  Dehmeshki, Jamshid ^a,b   Ye, Xujiong ^b   Amin, Hamdan ^b   Abaei, Marvam ^b   Lin, Xinyu ^b   Qanadli, Salah D ^c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Medicsight PLC   (United Kingdom)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coronary artery calcification; Expectation maximization; Partial volume effect; Proportion map; Volume measurement

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECTS; PROPORTION MAPS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33847791057     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.893344     Document Type: Article

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