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Authors
- Jagat Narula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0280-3996)
- Kim A. Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9858-5761)
- Morteza Naghavi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8112-175X)
- Prediman K. Shah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6351-8291)
- Claudia I. Henschke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6085-5305)
- George S. Abela (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8201-956X)
- Rozemarijn Vliegenthart (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7262-3376)
- Amir Azimi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8317-7009)
- Rowena Yip (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6208-2780)
- Javier J. Zulueta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3182-3555)
- David J. Maron (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4867-8588)
- Anthony P. Reeves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1451-3080)
- Michael V. McConnell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8743-0932)
- Emelia J. Benjamin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4076-2336)
- Matthew Jay Budoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9616-1946)
- Jakob Wasserthal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9921-5698)
- Jeffrey I. Mechanick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0657-588X)
- Nathan D. Wong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1102-7324)
- Zahi A. Fayad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3439-7347)
- Chenyu Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9799-8772)
- Seyed Reza Mirjalili
- D Yankelevitz
- Andrea Branch
- Kyle Atlas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-3855)
- Thomas Atlas
- Sabee Molloi
- Daniel Levy
- Ioannis A. Kakadiaris
- Khurram Nasir
- Wenjun Fan
- Sion K. Roy
- Ning Ma
Institutions
- Boston University (US)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- University of Louisville (US)
- University of Basel (CH)
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Orange County Research Center (US)
- Lung Institute (US)
- Mount Sinai Hospital (US)
- Stanford Health Care (US)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
- Methodist Hospital (US)
- Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- University of Houston (US)
- Michigan State University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Radiology Cardiothoracic Imaging
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1148/ryct.250214
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Small Business Innovation Research
- National Institutes of Health
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences