Automated segmentation and quantification of aortic calcification at abdominal CT: application of a deep learning-based algorithm to a longitudinal screening cohort

PM Graffy, J Liu, S O'Connor, RM Summers… - Abdominal …, 2019 - Springer
… of the fully automated abdominal aortic calcification algorithm that we employed. To our
knowledge, this retrospective cohort study is the first to achieve fully automated abdominal aortic

Automated segmentation and quantification of the healthy and diseased aorta in CT angiographies using a dedicated deep learning approach

MM Sieren, C Widmann, N Weiss, JH Moltz, F Link… - European …, 2022 - Springer
… Alternatives would have been the Agatston score to quantify calcification. However, since
there is no score that provides a comprehensive evaluation of calcifications, hypodense …

Automated quantitative 3D analysis of aorta size, morphology, and mural calcification distributions

S Kurugol, CE Come, AA Diaz, JC Ross… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… Validation of automated aorta segmentation algorithm We compute three different metrics to
compare the automated segmentation results with the manual segmentations. These metrics …

Automated Aortic Valve Calcific Area Segmentation in Echocardiography Images Using Fully Convolutional Neural Networks

M Cakir, M Ekinci, EB Kablan… - 2024 47th International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… In this paper, we introduce a fully automated method for segmenting the calcific area of the
aortic … The difference in this work is that the calcific area segmentation is performed in a fully …

Toward automated detection and segmentation of aortic calcifications from radiographs

F Lauze, M de Bruijne - Medical Imaging 2007: Image …, 2007 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… Although several automated and semi automated methods have been previously … for
automated segmentation of calcified plaques from X-ray images. Segmentation of calcifications in X-…

Automatic detection and quantification of abdominal aortic calcification in dual energy X-ray absorptiometry

K Elmasri, Y Hicks, X Yang, X Sun, R Pettit… - Procedia Computer …, 2016 - Elsevier
… L4 and the aorta on VFA images; the segmentation of the aorta was … vectors representing
calcified regions in the aorta were … The abdominal aorta was divided into four parts immediately …

Automated segmentation of thoracic aorta in non-contrast CT images

U Kurkure, OC Avila-Montes… - 2008 5th IEEE …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
aorta segmentation quite a challenging task. In this paper we describe a novel automated
method for segmentation of the thoracic aorta … posterior quantification of aortic calcified plaque. …

Automated scoring of aortic calcification in vertebral fracture assessment images

L Chaplin, T Cootes - Medical Imaging 2019: Computer-Aided …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
… and random forest approaches to automated segmentation of AAC in VFA images. As …
segmentation. Visual inspection of U-net segmentation indicates that the majority of calcification is …

Automated segmentation and volume measurement of intracranial internal carotid artery calcification at noncontrast CT

G Bortsova, D Bos, F Dubost, MW Vernooij… - Radiology: Artificial …, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Segmentation of intracranial arterial calcification with deeply supervised residual dropout
networks. In: International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted …

Automatic detection of calcifications in the aorta from CT scans of the abdomen1: 3D computer-aided diagnosis

I Isgum, B van Ginneken, M Olree - Academic radiology, 2004 - Elsevier
automating this procedure is determining the region of interest. For example, a fully automatic
segmentation of the aorta … Published vessel segmentation methods are usually interactive …