US 11,948,230 B2
Method for predicting cardiovascular risk
Charalambos Antoniades, Headington (GB); Keith Channon, Headington (GB); Evangelos Oikonomou, Headington (GB); and Stefan Neubauer, Headington (GB)
Assigned to Oxford University Innovation Limited, Botley (GB)
Filed by Oxford University Innovation Limited, Botley (GB)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/062,829.
Application 18/062,829 is a division of application No. 17/454,540, filed on Nov. 11, 2021.
Application 17/454,540 is a division of application No. 16/345,165, granted, now 11,393,137, issued on Jul. 19, 2022, previously published as PCT/GB2017/053262, filed on Oct. 31, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 20160100555 (GR), filed on Oct. 31, 2016; and application No. 1620494 (GB), filed on Dec. 2, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0113005 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/50 (2024.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01)
CPC G06T 11/008 (2013.01) [A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/504 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G16H 30/40 (2018.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of predicting a mortality risk or risk of a patient suffering a cardiovascular event, said method comprising:
(a) determining:
(i) epicardial adipose tissue volume (EpAT-vol);
and at least one of
(ii) fat attenuation index of epicardial adipose tissue (FAIEpAT); and
(iii) fat attenuation index of perivascular adipose tissue (FAIPVAT);
wherein FAIPVAT is determined using data gathered from a computer tomography (CT) scan along a length of a blood vessel; and
(b) comparing each of the values determined in (a) to a pre-determined cut-off value or using the absolute value of each variable determined in (a) in order to generate an output value that indicates the patient's mortality risk or risk of suffering a cardiovascular event.