Challenges in tissue characterization from backscattered intravascular ultrasound signals

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6513, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Katouzian, Amin ^a   Sathyanarayana, Shashidhar ^a   Li, Wenguang ^a   Thomas, Tom ^a   Carlier, Stéphane G ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Boston Scientific Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; High frequency; Intravascular ultrasound; Signal processing; Tissue characterization

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 35148859822     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.709731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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