Plaque Imaging: Pixel to Molecular Level (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, Vol. 113) (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics)

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 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 Edited By Jasjit S. Suri ... [et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.