Clinical indications for coronary artery calcium scoring in asymptomatic patients: expert consensus statement from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed …

H Hecht, MJ Blaha, DS Berman, K Nasir… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This expert consensus statement summarizes the available data regarding the prognostic
value of CAC in the asymptomatic population and its ability to refine individual risk …

Is breast arterial calcification associated with coronary artery disease?—A systematic review and meta-analysis

SC Lee, M Phillips, J Bellinge, J Stone, E Wylie… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background There is increasing evidence that breast arterial calcification (BAC), an
incidental finding on 3–29% of mammograms, could be used to screen for coronary artery …

DU-Net: Convolutional network for the detection of arterial calcifications in mammograms

M AlGhamdi, M Abdel-Mottaleb… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are part of several benign findings present on some
mammograms. Previous studies have indicated that BAC may provide evidence of general …

A review of the role of breast arterial calcification for cardiovascular risk stratification in women

QM Bui, LB Daniels - Circulation, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death among women in the
United States. One of the barriers to improving cardiovascular disease outcomes in women …

Pre-menopausal breast fat density might predict MACE during 10 years of follow-up: the BRECARD study

C Sardu, G Gatta, G Pieretti, L Viola, C Sacra… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - jacc.org
Objectives This study sought to determine whether the breast gland adipose tissue is
associated with different rates of major adverse cardiac events (MACEs) in pre-menopausal …

Prediction of subclinical coronary artery disease with breast arterial calcification and low bone mass in asymptomatic women: registry for the women health cohort for …

YE Yoon, KM Kim, JS Han, SH Kang, EJ Chun… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2019 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to determine whether evaluations of breast arterial calcification
(BAC) and low bone mass (LBM) could improve the ability to predict subclinical coronary …

Difference-of-Gaussian generative adversarial network for segmenting breast arterial calcifications in mammograms

M Alamir, M AlGhamdi, F Collado-Mesa… - Expert systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast arterial calcifications (BACs) are amongst the different types of benign calcifications
observed on mammograms. BACs have been found to correlate with cardiovascular risk …

[HTML][HTML] Preventive cardio-oncology: the time has come

SA Brown - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The time has come for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention to play a more prominent
role in cardio-oncology (Figure 1A). Cardio-oncology is an emerging subspecialty within …

The correlation of deep learning-based CAD-RADS evaluated by coronary computed tomography angiography with breast arterial calcification on mammography

Z Huang, J Xiao, Y Xie, Y Hu, S Zhang, X Li, Z Wang… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
This study sought to evaluate the association of breast arterial calcification (BAC) on breast
screening mammography with the Coronary Artery Disease-Reporting and Data System …

Coronary computed tomographic imaging in women: an expert consensus statement from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography

QA Truong, S Rinehart, S Abbara, S Achenbach… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
This expert consensus statement from the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
(SCCT) provides an evidence synthesis on the use of computed tomography (CT) imaging …