Detection of coronary calcifications from computed tomography scans for automated risk assessment of coronary artery disease

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1450-1461

  Išgum, Ivana ^a   Rutten, Annemarieke ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^b   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Computer aided diagnosis; Coronary calcifications; Coronary calcium scoring

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CARDIAC CT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CALCIFICATIONS; CORONARY CALCIUM; HIGH-DENSITY STRUCTURES; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

HEART;

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 34147128070     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2710548     Document Type: Article

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