Quantification of Epicardial Fat by Cardiac CT Imaging

Quantification of Epicardial Fat by Cardiac CT Imaging

The aim of this work is to introduce and design image processing methods for the quantitative analysis of epicardial fat by using cardiac CT imaging.Indeed, epicardial fat has recently been shown to correlate with cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular risk factors and metabolic syndrome. However, many concerns still remain about the methods for measuring epicardial fat, its regional distributi...

evaluation of fat atrophy in patients with dermis fat graft of orbit by ct-scan

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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 a very thin line, very hard to discriminate. To enhance the pericardium line and to remove noise ...

Systematic analysis of epicardial fat quantification in ECG- synchronized cardiac CT

Quantification of epicardial fat volume using cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging

Background A growing body of data has demonstrated a direct relationship between epicardial fat volume(EFV) and cardiovascular diseases. In fact, EFV has been shown to be an independent predictor of coronary atherosclerosis and atrial fibrillation. Currently, there is no standard protocol for assessing EFV using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR). Quantification of peri-ventricular EFV ut...