Intravascular Ultrasound: From Acquisition to Advanced Quantitative Analysis

Atherosclerosis, a disease the vessel wall that produces vessel narrowing and obstruction, is the major cause of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack or stroke. IntraVascular Ultrasound (IVUS) is an intra-operative imaging tool that allows visualizing internal vessel structures, quantifying and characterizing coronary plaque, and it is useful for diagnostic purposes and image-guided intervention. Computational vision techniques designed to analyze images for modeling, simulating, and visualizing anatomy and medical devices such as stents as well as the assessment of interventional procedures are therefore playing an important role and are currently receiving significant interest. Intravascular Ultrasound covers topics of the whole imaging pipeline, ranging from the definition of the clinical problem and image acquisition systems, to the image processing and analysis, including the assisted clinical-decision making procedures and the treatment planning (stent deployment and follow up). An introduction to the clinical workflow and current challenges in endovascular interventionsA review of the state-of-the-art methodologies in IVUS imaging and their applicationsA rich analysis of the current - and potential future - connections between the academic, clinical and industrial fields INDICE: SECTION I - CLINICAL INTRODUCTIONa. Clinical problem (atherosclerotic plaque evolution, plaque rupture, PCI interventions)b. Intravascular Ultrasound acquisition devices and probes available on the market, comparison versus OCT, IVUS on peripheral arteriesSECTION II - INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND IMAGE PROCESSINGa. Gating procedures and imaging artefact correction and registrationb. State of the art on segmentation of morphological structure (intima, media, plaque burden)c. Plaque classification and characterizationSECTION III - VASCULAR ANALYSIS BASED ON IVUS IMAGINGa. Post processing techniques (vascular elastography)b. Computational Fluido Dynamic analysis from IVUS 3D reconstructionSECTION IV - COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS AND THREATEMENT PLANNINGa. Stent detectionb. Malapposition analysis

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818833-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 225
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés