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Author Debora Gil; Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Mireia Burnat; Steven Jansen; Jordi Martinez-Vilalta
Title Structure-Preserving Smoothing of Biomedical Images Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2009 Publication 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns Abbreviated Journal
Volume 5702 Issue Pages 427-434
Keywords non-linear smoothing; differential geometry; anatomical structures segmentation; cardiac magnetic resonance; computerized tomography.
Abstract Smoothing of biomedical images should preserve gray-level transitions between adjacent tissues, while restoring contours consistent with anatomical structures. Anisotropic diffusion operators are based on image appearance discontinuities (either local or contextual) and might fail at weak inter-tissue transitions. Meanwhile, the output of block-wise and morphological operations is prone to present a block structure due to the shape and size of the considered pixel neighborhood. In this contribution, we use differential geometry concepts to define a diffusion operator that restricts to image consistent level-sets. In this manner, the final state is a non-uniform intensity image presenting homogeneous inter-tissue transitions along anatomical structures, while smoothing intra-structure texture. Experiments on different types of medical images (magnetic resonance, computerized tomography) illustrate its benefit on a further process (such as segmentation) of images.
Address Münster, Germany
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Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title LNCS
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 978-3-642-03766-5 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CAIP
Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GHB2009 Serial 1527
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Author Debora Gil; Oriol Rodriguez; Josepa Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title Statistical descriptors of the Myocardial perfusion in angiographic images Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication Proc. Computers in Cardiology Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 677-680
Keywords Anisotropic processing; intravascular ultrasound (IVUS); vessel border segmentation; vessel structure classification.
Abstract Restoration of coronary flow after primary percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction does not always correlate with adequate myocardial perfusion. Recently, coronary angiography has been used to assess microcirculation integrity (Myocardial BlushAnalysis, MBA). Although MBA correlates with patient prognosis there are few image processing methods addressing objective perfusion quantification. The goal of this work is to develop statistical descriptors of the myocardial dyeing pattern allowing objective assessment of myocardial perfusion. Experiments on healthy right coronary arteries show that our approach allows reliable measurements without any specific image acquisition protocol.
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Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRR2006 Serial 1528
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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Josefina Mauri
Title Ivus Segmentation Via a Regularized Curvature Flow Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2002 Publication X Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española de Ingeniería Biomédica CASEIB 2002 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 133-136
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Abstract 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.
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Publisher Place of Publication Saragossa, Espanya Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRM2002 Serial 1536
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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Jordi Saludes; Josefina Mauri
Title Automatic Segmentation of Artery Wall in Coronary IVUS Images: A Probabilistic Approach Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2000 Publication International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 4 Issue Pages 352-355
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Abstract Intravascular ultrasound images represent a unique tool to analyze the morphology of arteries and vessels (plaques, restenosis, etc). The poor quality of these images makes unsupervised segmentation based on traditional segmentation algorithms (such as edge or ridge/valley detection) fail to achieve the expected results. In this paper we present a probabilistic flexible template to separate different regions in the image. In particular, we use elliptic templates to model and detect the shape of the vessel inner wall in IVUS images. We present the results of successful segmentation obtained from patients undergoing stent treatment. A physician team has validated these results.
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Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRS2000a Serial 1537
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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Jordi Saludes; Josefina Mauri
Title Automatic Segmentation of Artery Wall in Coronary IVUS Images: a Probabilistic Approach Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2000 Publication Proceedings of CIC’2000 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Abstract Intravascular ultrasound images represent a unique tool to analyze the morphology of arteries and vessels (plaques, restenosis, etc). The poor quality of these images makes unsupervised segmentation based on traditional segmentation algorithms (such as edge or ridge/valley detection) fail to achieve the expected results. In this paper we present a probabilistic flexible template to separate different regions in the image. In particular, we use elliptic templates to model and detect the shape of the vessel inner wall in IVUS images. We present the results of successful segmentation obtained from patients undergoing stent treatment. A physician team has validated these results.
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Publisher Place of Publication Cambridge, Massachussets Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference CIC
Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRS2000 Serial 1538
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Author Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; Fernando Vilariño
Title Anisotropic Contour Completion Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2003 Publication Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages
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Abstract In this paper we introduce a novel application of the diffusion tensor for anisotropic image processing. The Anisotropic Contour Completion (ACC) we suggest consists in extending the characteristic function of the open curve by means of a degenerated diffusion tensor that prevents any diffusion in the normal direction. We show that ACC is equivalent to a dilation with a continuous elliptic structural element that takes into account the local orientation of the contours to be closed. Experiments on contours extracted from real images show that ACC produces shapes able to adapt to any curve in an active contour framework. 1.
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Publisher Place of Publication Barcelona, Spain Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN 0-7803-7751-6 Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM;MV;MILAB;SIAI Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ GRV2003 Serial 1539
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva
Title On the usefulness of supervised learning for vessel border detection in IntraVascular Imaging Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2005 Publication Proceeding of the 2005 conference on Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 67-74
Keywords classification; vessel border modelling; IVUS
Abstract IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) imaging is a useful tool in diagnosis of cardiac diseases since sequences completely show the morphology of coronary vessels. Vessel borders detection, especially the external adventitia layer, plays a central role in morphological measures and, thus, their segmentation feeds development of medical imaging techniques. Deterministic approaches fail to yield optimal results due to the large amount of IVUS artifacts and vessel borders descriptors. We propose using classification techniques to learn the set of descriptors and parameters that best detect vessel borders. Statistical hypothesis test on the error between automated detections and manually traced borders by 4 experts show that our detections keep within inter-observer variability.
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Publisher IOS Press Place of Publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HGR2005c Serial 1549
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Albert Teis
Title How Do Conservation Laws Define a Motion Suppression Score in In-Vivo Ivus Sequences? Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2007 Publication Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 2231-2234
Keywords validation standards; IVUS motion compensation; conservation laws.
Abstract Evaluation of arterial tissue biomechanics for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases is an active research field in the biomedical imaging processing area. IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) is a unique tool for such assessment since it reflects tissue morphology and deformation. A proper quantification and visualization of both properties is hindered by vessel structures misalignments introduced by cardiac dynamics. This has encouraged development of IVUS motion compensation techniques. However, there is a lack of an objective evaluation of motion reduction ensuring a reliable clinical application This work reports a novel score, the Conservation of Density Rate (CDR), for validation of motion compensation in in-vivo pullbacks. Synthetic experiments validate the proposed score as measure of motion parameters accuracy; while results in in vivo pullbacks show its reliability in clinical cases.
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Notes IAM Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HTG2007 Serial 1550
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Monica Mitiko; Sergio Shiguemi; Debora Gil
Title A validation protocol for assessing cardiac phase retrieval in IntraVascular UltraSound Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2010 Publication Computing in Cardiology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 37 Issue Pages 899-902
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Abstract A good reliable approach to cardiac triggering is of utmost importance in obtaining accurate quantitative results of atherosclerotic plaque burden from the analysis of IntraVascular UltraSound. Although, in the last years, there has been an increase in research of methods for retrospective gating, there is no general consensus in a validation protocol. Many methods are based on quality assessment of longitudinal cuts appearance and those reporting quantitative numbers do not follow a standard protocol. Such heterogeneity in validation protocols makes faithful comparison across methods a difficult task. We propose a validation protocol based on the variability of the retrieved cardiac phase and explore the capability of several quality measures for quantifying such variability. An ideal detector, suitable for its application in clinical practice, should produce stable phases. That is, it should always sample the same cardiac cycle fraction. In this context, one should measure the variability (variance) of a candidate sampling with respect a ground truth (reference) sampling, since the variance would indicate how spread we are aiming a target. In order to quantify the deviation between the sampling and the ground truth, we have considered two quality scores reported in the literature: signed distance to the closest reference sample and distance to the right of each reference sample. We have also considered the residuals of the regression line of reference against candidate sampling. The performance of the measures has been explored on a set of synthetic samplings covering different cardiac cycle fractions and variabilities. From our simulations, we conclude that the metrics related to distances are sensitive to the shift considered while the residuals are robust against fraction and variabilities as far as one can establish a pair-wise correspondence between candidate and reference. We will further investigate the impact of false positive and negative detections in experimental data.
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Publisher IEEE Place of Publication Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN 0276-6547 ISBN 978-1-4244-7318-2 Medium
Area Expedition Conference CINC
Notes IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HSM2010 Serial 1551
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Petia Radeva; Antonio Tovar; Debora Gil
Title Vessel structures alignment by spectral analysis of ivus sequences Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication Proc. of CVII, MICCAI Workshop Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 39-36
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Abstract Three-dimensional intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) allows to visualize and obtain volumetric measurements of coronary lesions through an exploration of the cross sections and longitudinal views of arteries. However, the visualization and subsequent morpho-geometric measurements in IVUS longitudinal cuts are subject to distortion caused by periodic image/vessel motion around the IVUS catheter. Usually, to overcome the image motion artifact ECG-gating and image-gated approaches are proposed, leading to slowing the pullback acquisition or disregarding part of IVUS data. In this paper, we argue that the image motion is due to 3-D vessel geometry as well as cardiac dynamics, and propose a dynamic model based on the tracking of an elliptical vessel approximation to recover the rigid transformation and align IVUS images without loosing any IVUS data. We report an extensive validation with synthetic simulated data and in vivo IVUS sequences of 30 patients achieving an average reduction of the image artifact of 97% in synthetic data and 79% in real-data. Our study shows that IVUS alignment improves longitudinal analysis of the IVUS data and is a necessary step towards accurate reconstruction and volumetric measurements of 3-D IVUS.
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Publisher Place of Publication Copenhaguen (Denmark), Editor
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Series Editor Series Title 1st International Wokshop on Computer Vision for Intravascular and Intracardiac Imaging (CVII’06) Abbreviated Series Title
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Notes IAM; MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HRT2006 Serial 1552
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; David Rotger; Debora Gil
Title Image-based ECG sampling of IVUS sequences Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2008 Publication Proc. IEEE Ultrasonics Symp. IUS 2008 Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 1330-1333
Keywords Longitudinal Motion; Image-based ECG-gating; Fourier analysis
Abstract Longitudinal motion artifacts in IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) sequences hinders a properly 3D reconstruction and vessel measurements. Most of current techniques base on the ECG signal to obtain a gated pullback without the longitudinal artifact by using a specific hardware or the ECG signal itself. The potential of IVUS images processing for phase retrieval still remains little explored. In this paper, we present a fast forward image-based algorithm to approach ECG sampling. Inspired on the fact that maximum and minimum lumen areas are related to end-systole and end-diastole, our cardiac phase retrieval is based on the analysis of tissue density of mass along the sequence. The comparison between automatic and manual phase retrieval (0.07 ± 0.07 mm. of error) encourages a deep validation contrasting with ECG signals.
Address Beijing (China)
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Publisher Place of Publication Editor
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Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
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Notes IAM;MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HRG2008 Serial 1553
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Josefina Mauri; Petia Radeva
Title Reducing cardiac motion in IVUS sequences Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2006 Publication Proceeding of Computers in Cardiology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 33 Issue Pages 685-688
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Abstract Cardiac vessel displacement is a main artifact in IVUS sequences. It hinders visualization of the main structures in an appropriate orientation and alignment and affects extracting vessel measurements. In this paper, we present a novel approach for image sequence alignment based on spectral analysis, which removes rigid dynamics, preserving at the same time the vessel geometry. First, we suppress the translation by taking, for each frame, the center of mass of the image as origin of coordinates. In polar coordinates with such point as origin, the rotation appears as a horizontal displacement. The translation induces a phase shift in the Fourier coefficients of two consecutive polar images. We estimate the phase by adjusting a regression plane to the phases of the principal frequencies. Experiments show that the presented strategy suppress cardiac motion regardless of the acquisition device. 1.
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Notes IAM; MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HGM2006a Serial 1554
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Author Aura Hernandez-Sabate; Debora Gil; Petia Radeva; E.N.Nofrerias
Title Anisotropic processing of image structures for adventitia detection in intravascular ultrasound images Type (down) Conference Article
Year 2004 Publication Proc. Computers in Cardiology Abbreviated Journal
Volume 31 Issue Pages 229-232
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Abstract The adventitia layer appears as a weak edge in IVUS images with a non-uniform grey level, which difficulties its detection. In order to enhance edges, we apply an anisotropic filter that homogenizes the grey level along the image significant structures (ridges, valleys and edges). A standard edge detector applied to the filtered image yields a set of candidate points prone to be unconnected. The final model is obtained by interpolating the former line segments along the tangent direction to the level curves of the filtered image with an anisotropic contour closing technique based on functional extension principles
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Publisher Place of Publication Chicago (USA) Editor
Language Summary Language Original Title
Series Editor Series Title Abbreviated Series Title
Series Volume Series Issue Edition
ISSN ISBN Medium
Area Expedition Conference
Notes IAM; MILAB Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ HGR2004 Serial 1555
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Author Josep Llados;Horst Bunke; Enric Marti
Title Using Cyclic String Matching to Find Rotational and Reflectional Symmetries in Shapes Type (down) Conference Article
Year 1997 Publication Intelligent Robots: Sensing, Modeling and Planning Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 164-179
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Abstract Dagstuhl Workshop
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Publisher World Scientific Press Place of Publication Editor
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ISSN ISBN 9810231857 Medium
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Notes DAG;IAM; Approved no
Call Number IAM @ iam @ LBM1997b Serial 1563
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Author Josep Llados; Horst Bunke; Enric Marti
Title Using cyclic string matching to find rotational and reflectional symmetric shapes Type (down) Conference Article
Year 1996 Publication Dagstuhl Seminar on Modelling and Planning for Sensor–based Intelligent Robot Systems Abbreviated Journal
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Publisher World Scientific Place of Publication Saarbrucken (Germany). Editor R.C. Bolles, H.B.H.N.
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Call Number IAM @ iam @ LBM1996 Serial 1564
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