Image analysis for detection of coronary artery soft plaques in MDCT images Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4025156, abstract = {In this paper we aim to develop a computationally- efficient image-segmentation procedure for detection and quantification of soft plaques in coronary arteries from multidetector CT images. The proposed method consists of three steps: extraction of the arterial lumen centerline, segmentation of the lumen and arterial wall separately with locally adaptive region growing, and detection of soft plaques based on effective cross- section areas of the lumen and of the wall. Preliminary results using clinical acquisitions are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.}, author = {Renard, F. and Yang, Yongyi}, booktitle = {Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on}, citeulike-article-id = {4025156}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540923}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4540923}, doi = {10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540923}, journal = {Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on}, keywords = {artery, coronary, mdct, plaques, soft}, pages = {25--28}, posted-at = {2009-02-09 10:50:04}, priority = {3}, title = {Image analysis for detection of coronary artery soft plaques in MDCT images}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540923}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4025156 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4025156 N2 - In this paper we aim to develop a computationally- efficient image-segmentation procedure for detection and quantification of soft plaques in coronary arteries from multidetector CT images. The proposed method consists of three steps: extraction of the arterial lumen centerline, segmentation of the lumen and arterial wall separately with locally adaptive region growing, and detection of soft plaques based on effective cross- section areas of the lumen and of the wall. Preliminary results using clinical acquisitions are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. JF - Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on EP - 28 TI - Image analysis for detection of coronary artery soft plaques in MDCT images T2 - Biomedical Imaging: From Nano to Macro, 2008. ISBI 2008. 5th IEEE International Symposium on SP - 25 KW - artery KW - coronary KW - mdct KW - plaques KW - soft AU - Renard, F AU - Yang, Yongyi PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2008.4540923 ER -