Texture-driven coronary artery plaque characterization using wavelet packet signatures

2008 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, Proceedings, ISBI

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 197-200

  Katouzian, Amin ^a   Baseri, Babak ^c   Konofagou, Elisa E ^a,b   Laine, Andrew F ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intravascular ultrasound; Plaque characterization; Texture analysis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; BLOOD VESSELS; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MEDICAL IMAGING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TEXTURES; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

CORONARY ARTERIES; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PLAQUE CHARACTERIZATION; TEXTURE ANALYSIS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 51049095445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540966     Document Type: Conference Paper

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