Reproducibility of IVUS border detection for carotid atherosclerotic plaque assessment

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 702-708

  Siewiorek, Gail M ^a   Loghmanpour, Natasha A ^a   Winston, Brion M ^b   Wholey, Mark H ^c   Finol, Ender A ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Regional Heart Doctors and Black Hills Cardiovascular Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Carotid artery stenting; Inter observer variability; Intravascular ultrasound; Plaque; Reproducibility; Virtual histology

Indexed keywords

CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; INTEROBSERVER VARIABILITY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; PLAQUE; REPRODUCIBILITIES;

DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; STENTS; ULTRASONICS;

RATING;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CALCIFIED FIBROATHEROMA; CALCIFIED THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FIBROATHEROMA; FIBROCALCIFIC; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; VASCULAR NECROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863336761     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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