Non-calcified coronary atherosclerotic plaque characterization by dual energy computed tomography

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 939-945

  Yamak, Didem ^a   Panse, Prasad ^b   Pavlicek, William ^b   Boltz, Thomas ^b   Akay, Metin ^c  

^a DEVRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; dual energy computed tomography (DECT); Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION TREES; DISEASES; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PHANTOMS; PIXELS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROMES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORONARY HEART DISEASE; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (DECT); DUAL-ENERGY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON-INVASIVE ASSESSMENTS; PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATIONS;

HEART;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84900797319     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2295534     Document Type: Article

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