Iterative self-organizing atherosclerotic tissue labeling in intravascular ultrasound images and comparison with virtual histology

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 3039-3049

  Katouzian, Amin ^a,b   Karamalis, Athanasios ^a   Sheet, Debdoot ^a,c   Konofagou, Elisa ^b   Baseri, Babak ^d   Carlier, Stephane G ^e   Eslami, Abouzar ^a,f   König, Andreas ^g   Navab, Nassir ^a   Laine, Andrew F ^h  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d Medical Center of Hackensack University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^f INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; histology; intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); plaque characterization; random walks; wavelet packets

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COLOR MAP; CORONARY ARTERIES; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; DATA COLLECTION; HISTOLOGY IMAGES; IMAGING MODALITY; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGES; RANDOM WALK; SELF ORGANIZING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; TRAINING DATASET; ULTRASOUND IMAGING; WAVELET PACKET;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISEASES; IMAGE MATCHING; ITERATIVE METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONICS;

HISTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO CULTURE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; VASCULAR FIBROSIS; VIRTUAL HISTOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY; WAVELET ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; TRANSDUCER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MYOCARDIUM; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84868147786     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2213338     Document Type: Article

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