Patient-specific prediction of coronary plaque growth from CTA angiography: A multiscale model for plaque formation and progression

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 952-965

  Parodi, Oberdan ^a   Exarchos, Themis P ^b   Marraccini, Paolo ^a   Vozzi, Federico ^a   Milosevic, Zarko ^c   Nikolic, Dalibor ^c   Sakellarios, Antonis ^d   Siogkas, Panagiotis K ^d   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^b,d   Filipovic, Nenad ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KRAGUJEVAC   (Serbia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood flow dynamics; coronary atherosclerosis; multislice computed tomography; plaque progression

Indexed keywords

3-D VESSEL RECONSTRUCTION; 3D MODELS; ARTERIAL WALL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS METHODS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; CONVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; IMAGE-BASED MODELING; IN-VIVO; INFLAMMATORY PROCESS; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; MASS CONSUMPTION; MULTISCALE MODELS; MULTISLICE COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PLAQUE PROGRESSION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REACTION DIFFUSION; RISK PREDICTIONS; RISK SCORE; VASCULAR REMODELING; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DISEASES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84866604957     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2012.2201732     Document Type: Article

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