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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bruno Figueiredo (author)
Outros Autores: Jorge G. Barbosa (author), Nuno Bettencourt (author), João Manuel R. S. Tavares (author)
Formato: book
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2009
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Texto completo:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/43636
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/43636