This publication starts of with a review of plaque imaging techniques, with an introduction of the segmentation techniques for plaque classification and quantification. Many aspects of plaque imaging techniques are presented in this publication, such as; medical image retrieval and database management, MRI techniques to differentiate stable versus high risk atherosclerosis, composition and morphology of atherosclerotic plaque, analysis of the soft tissue based on computer vision techniques, modelling of coronary artery biomechanics, Cardiac CT for the assessment of cardiovascular pathology with an emphasis on the detection of coronary atherosclerosis, technical and practical issues regarding coronary atherosclerotic plaque imaging by CT (focussing on coronary calcium imaging), feasibility of a non-invasive, in vivo determination of the IBS of arterial wall tissue, high resolution ultrasound images of carotid plaques, the problem of reliable features extraction and classification process and a discussion on advanced mathematical techniques to extract spectral information from the RF data to determine the plaque composition.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences
Author(s): J.S. Suri; C. Yuan; D.L. Wilson; S. Laxminarayan
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 488
Title page......Page 1
Preface......Page 7
The Editors......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 17
The Contributors......Page 19
Contents......Page 23
Plaque Imaging Using Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance and Computer Tomography: A Review......Page 25
Medical Image Retrieval Based on Plaque Appearance and Image Registration......Page 50
MRI Plaque Tissue Characterization and Assessment of Plaque Stability......Page 79
Intravascular Ultrasound Elastography: A Clinician's Tool for Assessing Vulnerability and Material Composition of Plaques......Page 99
Computer Vision Analysis of Collagen Fiber Bundles in the Adventitia of Human Blood Vessels......Page 121
Image Based Biomechanics of Coronary Plaque......Page 154
Computed Tomographic Cardiovascular Imaging......Page 172
Tomographic Plaque Imaging with CT......Page 206
Absolute Measurement of Integrated Backscatter from Arterial Wall Structures......Page 232
Ultrasound Imaging in the Analysis of Carotid Plaque Morphology for the Assessment of Stroke......Page 265
On the Assessment of Texture Feature Descriptors in Intravascular Ultrasound Images: A Boosting Approach to a Feasible Plaque Classification......Page 300
Real-Time Plaque Characterization and Visualization with Spectral Analysis of Intravascular Ultrasound Data......Page 324
Coronary Plaque Analysis by Multimodality Fusion......Page 345
Imaging of Plaque Cellular Activity with Contrast Enhanced MRI......Page 384
Inter- and Intra-Observer Variability Assessment of in Vivo Carotid Plaque Burden Quantification Using Multi-Contrast Dark Blood MR Images......Page 408
Three-Dimensional Volume Registration of Carotid MR Images......Page 418
Characterization of Shear Stress on the Wall of the Carotid Artery Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Computational Fluid Dynamics......Page 436
Numerical Modeling of Coronary Drug Eluting Stents......Page 467
Author Index......Page 485
