Diferenciacion de las estructuras del vaso coronario mediante el procesamiento de imagenes y el analisis de las diferentes texturas a partir de la ecografia intracoronaria
Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; J. Mauri; Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias; M. Gomez; Antonio Tovar; L. Cano; C. Diego; Carme Julia; Vicente del Valle; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
Cardiac diseases are diagnosed and treated through a study of the morphology and dynamics of cardiac arteries. In- travascular Ultrasound (IVUS) imaging is of high interest to physicians since it provides both information. At the current state-of-the-art in image segmentation, a robust detection of the arterial lumen in IVUS demands manual intervention or ECG-gating. Manual intervention is a tedious and time consuming task that requires experienced observers, meanwhile ECG-gating is an acquisition technique not available in all clinical centers. We introduce a parametric algorithm that detects the arterial luminal border in in vivo sequences. The method consist in smoothing the sequences’ level surfaces under a regularized mean curvature flow that admits non-trivial steady states. The flow is based on a measure of the surface local smoothness that takes into account regularity of the surface curvature.
Oriol Rodriguez-Leor; J. Mauri; Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias; M. Gomez; Antonio Tovar; L. Cano; C. Diego; Carme Julia; Vicente del Valle; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
