A supervised classification-based method for coronary calcium detection in non-contrast CT

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 817-828

  Kurkure, Uday ^a   Chittajallu, Deepak R ^a   Brunner, Gerd ^a   Le, Yen H ^a   Kakadiaris, Ioannis A ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary calcium; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEXAS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78049328623     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-010-9607-2     Document Type: Article

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