Automatic quantification of epicardial fat volume on non-enhanced cardiac CT scans using a multi-atlas segmentation approach

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Shahzad, Rahil ^a,b   Bos, Daniel ^b   Metz, Coert ^b   Rossi, Alexia ^a   Kirişli, Hortense ^b   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^b   Klein, Stefan ^b   Witteman, Jacqueline ^b   De Feyter, Pim ^b   Niessen, Wiro ^a,b   Van Vliet, Lucas ^a   Van Walsum, Theo ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adipose tissue; computed tomography (CT); pericardium delineation; registration; segmentation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HEART; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LARGE DATASET; MEDICAL IMAGING; TISSUE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATIC QUANTIFICATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PERICARDIUM DELINEATION; REGISTRATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EPICARDIUM; FAT MASS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84883814155     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4817577     Document Type: Article

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