Hunting for necrosis in the shadows of intravascular ultrasound

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 104-112

  Sheet, Debdoot ^a,b   Karamalis, Athanasios ^a   Eslami, Abouzar ^a   Noël, Peter ^a   Virmani, Renu ^e   Nakano, Masataka ^e   Chatterjee, Jyotirmoy ^b   Ray, Ajoy K ^b   Laine, Andrew F ^c   Carlier, Stephane G ^d   Navab, Nassir ^a   Katouzian, Amin ^a,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^e CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Intravascular ultrasound; Machine learning; Nakagami distribution; Necrotic core; Tissue characterization; Ultrasound signal confidence

Indexed keywords

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MACHINE LEARNING; NAKAGAMI DISTRIBUTION; NECROTIC CORE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; ULTRASOUND SIGNAL CONFIDENCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NECROSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84895072548     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: 18790771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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