A lesion-specific coronary artery calcium quantification framework for the prediction of cardiac events

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 673-680

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

^a PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac event prediction; computed tomography; coronary artery calcium (CAC)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIES; EVENT PREDICTION; IMPROVED AREA; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; QUANTIFICATION METHODS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; RISK MODEL; RISK PROBABILITIES;

CALCIUM; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY;

HEART;

CALCIUM;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CALCIUM; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80052565851     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2011.2162074     Document Type: Article

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