Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque Elasticity Reconstruction Based on a Segmentation-Driven Optimization Procedure Using Strain Measurements: Theoretical Framework.
Simon Le Floc'hJacques OhayonPhilippe TracquiGérard FinetAhmed M. GharibRoch L. MauriceGuy CloutierRoderic I. PettigrewPublished in: IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging (2009)
Keyphrases
- theoretical framework
- optimization procedure
- carotid artery
- intravascular ultrasound
- optimization method
- quantitative measurements
- objective function
- cross sectional
- superpixels
- coronary artery
- ultrasound images
- segmentation algorithm
- segmentation method
- high resolution
- region growing
- image segmentation
- deformable models
- medical images
- shape prior
- edge detection
- object segmentation
- multiscale
- level set
- post mortem
- genetic algorithm
- neural network