Semi-automatic quantification of the epicardial fat in CT images

In this work we present a technique to automatically or semi-automatically quantify the epicardial fat in noncontrasted Computed Tomography (CT) images. In CT images, the epicardial fat is very close to the pericardial fat, distincted only by the pericardium. The pericardium appears in the image as...

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Main Author: Bruno Figueiredo (author)
Other Authors: Jorge G. Barbosa (author), Nuno Bettencourt (author), João Manuel R. S. Tavares (author)
Format: book
Language:eng
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/43636
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/43636