A qualitative and quantitative study of coronary artery MRA

Author

Velut, Jérôme ; Lentz, Pierre-Axel ; Philipot, Clément ; Garcia, Marie-Paule ; Toumoulin, Christine

Author_Institution

LTSI, Univ. de Rennes 1, Rennes, France

fYear

2010

fDate

Aug. 31 2010-Sept. 4 2010

Firstpage

5724

Lastpage

5727

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an analysis of the coronary arterial tree obtained through magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Ten datasets of the state-of-the-art SSFP MRI sequence are first qualitatively evaluated and labelled. Second, a quantitative analysis of anatomical and image features is performed. Finally, a comparison with an existing semi-automatic centreline extraction method is reported. The discussion deals with the clinical usage of such an imaging modality for both global anatomy visualisation and quantification purpose.

Keywords

angiocardiography; biomedical MRI; blood vessels; feature extraction; medical image processing; coronary artery; global anatomy visualisation; image features; magnetic resonance angiography; semiautomatic centreline extraction method; Angiography; Arteries; Feature extraction; Heart; Image segmentation; Three dimensional displays; Coronary Angiography; Coronary Vessels; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Angiography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Buenos Aires

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4123-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627865

Filename

5627865