Lesion-specific coronary artery calcium quantification better predicts cardiac events

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, ISBI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 237-240

  Qian, Zhen ^a   Marvasty, Idean ^a   Anderson, Hunt ^a   Rinehart, Sarah ^a   Voros, Szilard ^a  

^a PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac event prediction; Coronary artery calcium; Lesion specific

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION ,; CARDIAC EVENT PREDICTION; CORONARY ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM; LESION SPECIFIC; NAIVE BAYESIAN; NON-INVASIVE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; RADIATION IMAGING; RISK MODEL; RISK PROBABILITIES; ROC ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM ALLOYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CALCIUM;

EID: 70449353897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2009.5193027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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