Lumen Segmentation in Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Using Backscattering Tracked and Initialized Random Walks

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 606-614

  Guha Roy, Abhijit ^a   Conjeti, Sailesh ^b   Carlier, Stephane G ^c   Dutta, Pranab K ^a   Kastrati, Adnan ^b   Laine, Andrew F ^d   Navab, Nassir ^b   Katouzian, Amin ^b   Sheet, Debdoot ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ambroise Pare   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

Intravascular imaging; lumen segmentation; optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CELL DEATH; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY; INTRAVASCULAR IMAGING; LUMEN SEGMENTATIONS; OPTICAL BACKSCATTERING; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; STOCHASTIC UNCERTAINTIES; TISSUE CLASSIFICATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

A SCAN; ATTENUATION; CARDIOLOGIST; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING; IN VITRO STUDY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MODEL; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PLANT SEED; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION SCATTERING;

CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84963743949     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2015.2403713     Document Type: Article

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