HoliMAb: a holistic approach for Media-Adventitia border detection in intravascular ultrasound.
Med Image Anal
; 16(6): 1085-100, 2012 Aug.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22854037
ABSTRACT
We present a fully automatic methodology for the detection of the Media-Adventitia border (MAb) in human coronary artery in Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) images. A robust border detection is achieved by means of a holistic interpretation of the detection problem where the target object, i.e. the media layer, is considered as part of the whole vessel in the image and all the relationships between tissues are learnt. A fairly general framework exploiting multi-class tissue characterization as well as contextual information on the morphology and the appearance of the tissues is presented. The methodology is (i) validated through an exhaustive comparison with both Inter-observer variability on two challenging databases and (ii) compared with state-of-the-art methods for the detection of the MAb in IVUS. The obtained averaged values for the mean radial distance and the percentage of area difference are 0.211 mm and 10.1%, respectively. The applicability of the proposed methodology to clinical practice is also discussed.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Coronary Artery Disease
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Pattern Recognition, Automated
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Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted
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Tunica Media
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Ultrasonography, Interventional
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Coronary Vessels
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Adventitia
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Med Image Anal
Journal subject:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Year:
2012
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Spain