A new approach for improving coronary plaque component analysis based on intravascular ultrasound images

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1245-1258

  Taki, Arash ^a   Hetterich, Holger ^b   Roodaki, Alireza ^c   Setarehdan, S K ^d   Unal, Gozde ^e   Rieber, Johannes ^b   Navab, Nassir ^a   König, Andreas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SUPELEC   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^e SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

IVUS; Longitudinal resolution; Plaque component analysis; Shadow region; Virtual histology

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPONENT ANALYSIS; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE-BASED; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; NEW APPROACHES; P-VALUES; PLAQUE COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGION-BASED; SHADOW REGIONS; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PIXELS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS;

HISTOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CALCIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 77955405496     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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