Corresponding IVUS and angiogram image data

Author

Rotger, D. ; Radeva, P. ; Cañero, C. ; Villanueva, JJ ; Mauri, J. ; Fernández, E. ; Tovar, A. ; Valle, V.

Author_Institution

Comput. Vision Center, Univ. Autonoma of Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

276

Abstract

The growing appreciation of the pathophysiological and prognostic importance of arterial morphology have led to the realization that angiograms are inherently limited in defining the distribution and extension of coronary wall disease. By IntraVascular UltraSound (IVUS) physicians have a picture of the composition of vessel in detail. However, observing an IVUS pullback it is difficult to figure out the catheter position with regard to the vessel parts and ramifications, and misclassfication of lesions is possible. The objective of this work is to develop a computer vision technique to fuse the information from IVUS and angiograms defining the correspondence of every IVUS image with a corresponding point of the vessel in the angiograms

Keywords

angiocardiography; cardiovascular system; computer vision; echocardiography; medical image processing; sensor fusion; angiograms; arterial morphology; catheter position; computer vision technique; coronary wall disease; intravascular ultrasound; lesions; Angiography; Catheters; Computer vision; Diseases; Hospitals; Lesions; Morphology; Shape; Ultrasonic imaging; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Cardiology 2001

Conference_Location

Rotterdam

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIC.2001.977645

Filename

977645