Automated aortic calcium scoring on low-dose chest computed tomography

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 714-723

  Išgum, Ivana ^a   Rutten, Annemarieke ^b   Prokop, Mathias ^b   Staring, Marius ^a   Klein, Stefan ^a   Pluim, Josien P W ^a   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aorta; Aortic segmentation; Atlas based segmentation; Automatic calcium scoring

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BLOOD VESSELS; BONE; CALCIFICATION (BIOCHEMISTRY); CALCIUM; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; TEXTURES;

AORTA; ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATION; AUTOMATIC CALCIUM SCORING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; CONNECTED COMPONENT LABELING; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; MULTI ATLAS-BASED SEGMENTATIONS; SPEARMAN RANK CORRELATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 75749132897     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284211     Document Type: Article

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