Usefulness of automated assessment of nuclear cardiology for prediction of major cardiac events in Japanese patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease: Comparison with conventional visual assessment in a large-scale prognostic study

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 395-400

  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; Computer assisted image processing; Prognostic risk stratification; Radionuclide imaging

Indexed keywords

TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; THALLIUM 201;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPECT SCANNER; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TIME;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUTOMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84912032118     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2014.02.025     Document Type: Article

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