TY - GEN
T1 - Towards extra-luminal blood detection from intravascular ultrasound radio frequency data
AU - Mendizabal-Ruiz, E. Gerardo
AU - Biros, George
AU - Kakadiaris, Ioannis A.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Recent evidence has suggested that the presence and proliferation of vasa vasorum (VV) in the plaque is correlated to an increase in plaque inflammation and destabilization, leading to acute coronary events (e.g., heart attacks). Therefore, the detection and quantification of VV in plaque (i.e., extra luminal blood perfusion) is an important problem since it may enable the development of an index of plaque vulnerability. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of a method that employs a physics-based model of the scattered intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) radio frequency signal for the detection of blood. We evaluate our method using synthetic data and validate it using six 40 MHz pullback sequences acquired with three different IVUS systems from different arteries of rabbits and swines. Our experimental results are very promising and indicate the feasibility of our method for the computation of a feature that leads to automatic extra-luminal blood detection which may be an indication of plaque inflammation.
AB - Recent evidence has suggested that the presence and proliferation of vasa vasorum (VV) in the plaque is correlated to an increase in plaque inflammation and destabilization, leading to acute coronary events (e.g., heart attacks). Therefore, the detection and quantification of VV in plaque (i.e., extra luminal blood perfusion) is an important problem since it may enable the development of an index of plaque vulnerability. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of a method that employs a physics-based model of the scattered intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) radio frequency signal for the detection of blood. We evaluate our method using synthetic data and validate it using six 40 MHz pullback sequences acquired with three different IVUS systems from different arteries of rabbits and swines. Our experimental results are very promising and indicate the feasibility of our method for the computation of a feature that leads to automatic extra-luminal blood detection which may be an indication of plaque inflammation.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-23623-5_50
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-23623-5_50
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22003642
AN - SCOPUS:82255164634
SN - 9783642236228
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 396
EP - 403
BT - Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011 - 14th International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 14th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2011
Y2 - 18 September 2011 through 22 September 2011
ER -