%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Stent shape estimation through a comprehensive interpretation of intravascular ultrasound images
%A Francesco Ciompi
%A Simone Balocco
%A Carles Caus
%A J. Mauri
%A Petia Radeva
%B 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention
%D 2013
%V 8150
%N 2
%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%@ 0302-9743
%@ 978-3-642-40762-8
%F Francesco Ciompi2013
%O MILAB
%O exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2258), last updated on Thu, 10 Nov 2016 12:16:41 +0100
%X 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.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40763-5_43
%P 345-352