TY - GEN
T1 - Automated pericardial fat quantification in CT data
AU - Bandekar, Alok N.
AU - Naghavi, Morteza
AU - Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Recent evidence indicates that pericardial fat may be a significant cardiovascular risk factor. Although pericardial fat is routinely imaged during Computed Tomography (CT) for coronary calcium scoring, it is currently ignored in the analysis of CT images. The primary reason for this is the absence of a tool capable of automatic quantification of pericardial fat. Recent studies on pericardial fat imaging were limited to manually outlined regions-of-interest and preset fat attenuation thresholds, which are subject to inter-observer and inter-scan variability. In this paper, we present a method for automatic pericardial fat burden quantification and classification. We evaluate the performance of our method using data from 23 subjects with very encouraging results.
AB - Recent evidence indicates that pericardial fat may be a significant cardiovascular risk factor. Although pericardial fat is routinely imaged during Computed Tomography (CT) for coronary calcium scoring, it is currently ignored in the analysis of CT images. The primary reason for this is the absence of a tool capable of automatic quantification of pericardial fat. Recent studies on pericardial fat imaging were limited to manually outlined regions-of-interest and preset fat attenuation thresholds, which are subject to inter-observer and inter-scan variability. In this paper, we present a method for automatic pericardial fat burden quantification and classification. We evaluate the performance of our method using data from 23 subjects with very encouraging results.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259259
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.259259
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17946011
AN - SCOPUS:34047156649
SN - 1424400325
SN - 9781424400324
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 932
EP - 935
BT - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
T2 - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Y2 - 30 August 2006 through 3 September 2006
ER -