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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Hui Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Automatic characterization of the Agatston score from coronary computed tomography (CT) is provided. In various embodiments, a plurality of coronary computed tomography images are segmented into a plurality of segments corresponding to features of coronary anatomy. A plurality of calcium candidates are extracted from the plurality of coronary computed tomography images by thresholding. Coronary calcification is located in the coronary computed tomography images by applying a trained classifier to the plurality of calcium candidates. An Agatson score is computed from the located calcification.