Recent progress in epicardial and pericardial adipose tissue segmentation and quantification based on deep learning: A systematic review

M Benčević, I Galić, M Habijan, A Pižurica - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Epicardial and pericardial adipose tissues (EAT and PAT), which are located around the
heart, have been linked to coronary atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathy, coronary artery …

A semi-automatic approach for epicardial adipose tissue segmentation and quantification on cardiac CT scans

C Militello, L Rundo, P Toia, V Conti, G Russo… - Computers in biology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many studies have shown that epicardial fat is associated with a higher risk of heart
diseases. Accurate epicardial adipose tissue quantification is still an open research issue …

CoreSlicer: a web toolkit for analytic morphomics

L Mullie, J Afilalo - BMC medical imaging, 2019 - Springer
Background Analytic morphomics, or more simply,“morphomics,” refers to the measurement
of specific biomarkers of body composition from medical imaging, most commonly computed …

Automatic epicardial fat segmentation and quantification of CT scans using dual U-Nets with a morphological processing layer

Q Zhang, J Zhou, B Zhang, W Jia, E Wu - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The epicardial fat plays a key role in the development of many cardiovascular diseases. It is
necessary and useful to precisely segment this fat from CT scans in clinical studies …

A 3D deep learning approach to epicardial fat segmentation in non-contrast and post-contrast cardiac CT images

T Siriapisith, W Kusakunniran, P Haddawy - PeerJ Computer Science, 2021 - peerj.com
Epicardial fat (ECF) is localized fat surrounding the heart muscle or myocardium and
enclosed by the thin-layer pericardium membrane. Segmenting the ECF is one of the most …

Robust ellipse fitting via alternating direction method of multipliers

J Liang, P Li, D Zhou, HC So, D Liu, CS Leung, L Sui - Signal Processing, 2019 - Elsevier
The edge point errors, especially outliers, introduced in the edge detection step, will cause
severe performance degradation in ellipse fitting. To address this problem, we adopt the ℓ p …

The U-Net Family for Epicardial Adipose Tissue Segmentation and Quantification in Low-Dose CT

L Liu, R Ma, PMA van Ooijen, M Oudkerk… - Technologies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is located between the visceral pericardium and
myocardium, and EAT volume is correlated with cardiovascular risk. Nowadays, many deep …

[PDF][PDF] Quantification of epicardial adipose tissue volume and attenuation for cardiac CT scans using deep learning in a single multi-task framework

M Abdulkareem, MS Brahier, F Zou… - Reviews in …, 2022 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
Background: Recent studies have shown that epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is an
independent atrial fibrillation 48 (AF) prognostic marker and has influence on the myocardial …

Deep Learning-Based Approach for the Automatic Quantification of Epicardial Adipose Tissue from Non-Contrast CT

J Qu, Y Chang, L Sun, Y Li, Q Si, MF Yang, C Li… - Cognitive …, 2022 - Springer
Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) is contiguous with arteries and myocardium. An increase in
the volume of EAT may lead to adverse cardiovascular events. Therefore, quantification of …

Automated pericardium segmentation and epicardial adipose tissue quantification from computed tomography images

Y Wang, A Wang, L Wang, W Tan, L Xu, J Wang… - … Signal Processing and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Objective Epicardial Adipose Tissue (EAT) is regarded as an
independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and an increase in its volume is closely …