Automated tissue characterization of in vivo atherosclerotic plaques by intravascular optical coherence tomography images

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1014-1030

  Ughi, Giovanni Jacopo ^a   Adriaenssens, Tom ^a   Sinnaeve, Peter ^a   Desmet, Walter ^a   D'hooge, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PIXELS;

ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; OPTICAL ATTENUATION; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TISSUE COMPOSITION; TRAINING AND TESTING;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84879268331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.001014     Document Type: Article

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