Automatic coronary calcium scoring in low-dose chest computed tomography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2322-2334

  Išgum, Ivana ^a   Prokop, Mathias ^a   Niemeijer, Meindert ^b,c   Viergever, Max A ^a   Van Ginneken, Bram ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automatic coronary calcium scoring; cardiovascular risk assessment; chest computed tomography (CT); lung cancer screening

Indexed keywords

A-PRIORI PROBABILITIES; AGATSTON SCORE; CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHEST CT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY CALCIFICATIONS; CORONARY CALCIUM; FALSE POSITIVE; LOW DOSE; LUNG CANCER SCREENING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; PREVENTIVE TREATMENTS; SPATIAL FEATURES; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIUM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870488848     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2012.2216889     Document Type: Article

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