TY  - CONF
AU  - Debora Gil
AU  - Oriol Rodriguez
AU  - Josepa Mauri
AU  - Petia Radeva
PY  - 2006//
TI  - Statistical descriptors of the Myocardial perfusion in angiographic images
BT  - Proc. Computers in Cardiology
SP  - 677
EP  - 680
KW  - Anisotropic processing
KW  - intravascular ultrasound (IVUS)
KW  - vessel border segmentation
KW  - vessel structure classification.
N2  - 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.
N1  - IAM;MILAB
ID  - Debora Gil2006
ER  -