Mortality impact of low CAC density predominantly occurs in early atherosclerosis: explainable ML in the CAC consortium

By sjmartinez • November 15, 2022

Lin FY, Goebel BP, Lee BC, Lu Y, Baskaran L, Yoon YE, Maliakal GT, Gianni U, Bax AM, Sengupta PP, Slomka PJ, Dey DS, Rozanski A, Han D, Berman DS, Budoff MJ, Miedema MD, Nasir K, Rumberger J, Whelton SP, Blaha MJ, Shaw LJ. Mortality impact of low CAC density predominantly occurs in early atherosclerosis: explainable ML in the CAC consortium. J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr. 2022 Nov 11:S1934-5925(22)00288-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2022.10.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36376147.

Tags: CAC, CAC density, Cardiology/Epi, Harbor UCLA, mortality, Publications, SHAP, XGBoost

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