Vessel Specific Coronary Artery Calcium Scoring. An Automatic System

Academic Radiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Shahzad, Rahil ^a,b   van Walsum, Theo ^b   Schaap, Michiel ^b   Rossi, Alexia ^b   Klein, Stefan ^b   Weustink, Annick C ^b   de Feyter, Pim J ^b   van Vliet, Lucas J ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Calcium scoring; Coronary arteries; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VESSEL SPECIFIC CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORING; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84870866172     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2012.07.018     Document Type: Article

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