Automatic Coronary Calcium Scoring in Non-Contrast-Enhanced ECG-Triggered Cardiac CT with Ambiguity Detection

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1867-1878

  Wolterink, Jelmer M ^a   Leiner, Tim ^b   Takx, Richard A P ^b   Viergever, Max A ^a   Išgum, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambiguity detection; automatic calcium scoring; cardiac CT; coronary artery calcium; guided review; supervised classification

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; CALCIUM; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY;

AUTOMATIC CALCIUM SCORING; CARDIAC CT; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUMS; CORONARY CALCIFICATIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

HEART;

ADULT; AGATSTON SCORE; AGED; AMBIGUITY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CLASSIFIER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENTROPY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MACHINE LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICLASS CLASSIFIER; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; TWO CLASS CLASSIFIER; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940934348     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: 1558254X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2015.2412651     Document Type: Article

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