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Francesco Ciompi, Simone Balocco, Carles Caus, J. Mauri, & Petia Radeva. (2013). Stent shape estimation through a comprehensive interpretation of intravascular ultrasound images. In 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (Vol. 8150, pp. 345–352). LNCS. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Abstract: We present a method for automatic struts detection and stent shape estimation in cross-sectional intravascular ultrasound images. A stent shape is first estimated through a comprehensive interpretation of the vessel morphology, performed using a supervised context-aware multi-class classification scheme. Then, the successive strut identification exploits both local appearance and the defined stent shape. The method is tested on 589 images obtained from 80 patients, achieving a F-measure of 74.1% and an averaged distance between manual and automatic struts of 0.10 mm.
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