TY - CHAP
T1 - Cardiovascular informatics
T2 - A perspective on promises and challenges of IVUS data analysis
AU - Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.
AU - Mendizabal Ruiz, E. Gerardo
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Eckhard Pfeiffer Endowed Fund and by NSF grants IIS-0431144, CNS-0521527 and DMS-0915242. The second author was supported in part by CONACYT. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are the authors’ and may not reflect the views of the sponsors.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a catheter-based medical imaging modality that is capable of providing cross-sectional images of the interior of blood vessels. A comprehensive analysis of the IVUS data allows collecting information about the morphology and structure of the vessel and the atherosclerotic plaque, if present. Atherosclerotic plaque formation is considered to be a part of an inflammatory process. Recent evidence has suggested that the presence and proliferation of vasa vasorum (VV) in the plaque is correlated with the increase of plaque inflammation and the processes which lead to its destabilization. Hence, the detection and measurement of VV in plaque has the potential to enable the development of an index of plaque vulnerability. In this paper, we review the research at the Computational Biomedicine Lab towards the development of a complete pipeline for the detection and quantification of extra-luminal blood detection from IVUS data which may be an indication of the existence of VV.
AB - Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is a catheter-based medical imaging modality that is capable of providing cross-sectional images of the interior of blood vessels. A comprehensive analysis of the IVUS data allows collecting information about the morphology and structure of the vessel and the atherosclerotic plaque, if present. Atherosclerotic plaque formation is considered to be a part of an inflammatory process. Recent evidence has suggested that the presence and proliferation of vasa vasorum (VV) in the plaque is correlated with the increase of plaque inflammation and the processes which lead to its destabilization. Hence, the detection and measurement of VV in plaque has the potential to enable the development of an index of plaque vulnerability. In this paper, we review the research at the Computational Biomedicine Lab towards the development of a complete pipeline for the detection and quantification of extra-luminal blood detection from IVUS data which may be an indication of the existence of VV.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-4133-5_6
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-4133-5_6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84874316794
SN - 9781461441328
T3 - Fields Institute Communications
SP - 117
EP - 130
BT - Optimization and Data Analysis in Biomedical Informatics
A2 - Pardalos, Panos M
ER -