Quantitative segmentation of principal carotid atherosclerotic lesion components by feature space analysis based on multicontrast MRI at 1.5 T

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 352-360

  Karmonik, Christof ^a,b   Basto, Pamela ^c   Vickers, Kasey ^c   Martin, Kirt ^c   Reardon, Micheal J ^d   Lawrie, Gerald M ^d   Morrisett, Joel D ^c  

^a HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Feature space analysis (FSA); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Multicontrast (mc) imaging

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC LESIONS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMIES; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLINICAL CONDITIONS; EX-VIVO; FEATURE SPACE ANALYSIS (FSA); HISTOLOGICAL DATUM; IMAGING CONDITIONS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES; MRI IMAGES; MULTICONTRAST (MC) IMAGING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROTON DENSITIES; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENTS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCES; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

LIPID;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CALCIFICATION; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEATURE SPACE ANALYSIS; FIBROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO CULTURE; INTIMA; MULTICONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; THROMBUS;

ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORING AGENTS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 63849173887     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2003100     Document Type: Article

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