Publikation

Automatic detection of calcified coronary plaques in computed tomography data sets

Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 01.01.2008

Bereiche
PubMed

Zitation
Saur S, Alkadhi H, Desbiolles L, Székely G, Cattin P. Automatic detection of calcified coronary plaques in computed tomography data sets. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 2008; 11:170-7.
Art
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review (Englisch)
Zeitschrift
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv 2008; 11
Veröffentlichungsdatum
01.01.2008
Seiten
170-7
Kurzbeschreibung/Zielsetzung

The detection of calcified plaques is an essential step in the assessment of coronary heart diseases. However, manual plaque segmentation is subjected to intra- and inter-observer variability. We present a novel framework for the automatic detection of calcified coronary plaques in Computed Tomography images. In contrast to the state-of-the-art, both the native and the angio data sets are included to gain additional information about each plaque for its detection and subsequent assessment. The framework was successfully tested on 127 patients where 85.5% of the calcified and 96% of the obstructive plaques have been detected.