Validation of automated quantification of nuclear cardiology in Japanese patients using total perfusion deficits: Comparison with visual assessment

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 350-357

  Yoda, Shunichi ^a   Nakanishi, Kanae ^a   Tano, Ayako ^a   Hori, Yusuke ^a   Suzuki, Yasuyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automated quantification; Image processing computer assisted; Radionuclide imaging; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARDIAC GATED IMAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MALE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUTOMATED QUANTIFICATION; IMAGE PROCESSING COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84899993797     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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