ArticleIEEE transactions on medical imaging2019
A Mechanical Approach for Smooth Surface Fitting to Delineate Vessel Walls in Optical Coherence Tomography Images.
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- Fully automated construction of three-dimensional finite element simulations from Optical Coherence Tomography.Computers in biology and medicine · 2023Article
- Comparison of multilayer and single-layer coronary plaque models on stress/strain calculations based on optical coherence tomography images.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Human Coronary Plaque Optical Coherence Tomography Image Repairing, Multilayer Segmentation and Impact on Plaque Stress/Strain Calculations.Journal of functional biomaterials · 2022Article
- In Vivo Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography (IVOCT) Structural and Blood Flow Imaging Based Mechanical Simulation Analysis of a Blood Vessel.Cardiovascular engineering and technology · 2022Article
- Framework for lumen-based nonrigid tomographic coregistration of intravascular images.Journal of medical imaging (Bellingham, Wash.) · 2022Article
- An inverse method for mechanical characterization of heterogeneous diseased arteries using intravascular imaging.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A platform for high-fidelity patient-specific structural modelling of atherosclerotic arteries: from intravascular imaging to three-dimensional stress distributions.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- Automated accurate lumen segmentation using L-mode interpolation for three-dimensional intravascular optical coherence tomography.Biomedical optics express · 2019Article
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Abstract
Automated analysis of vascular imaging techniques is limited by the inability to precisely determine arterial borders. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers unprecedented detail of artery wall structure and composition, but does not provide consistent visibility of the outer border of the vessel due to the limited penetration depth. Existing interpolation and surface fitting methods prove insufficient to accurately fill the gaps between the irregularly spaced and sometimes unreliably identified visible segments of the vessel outer border. This paper describes an intuitive, efficient, and flexible new method of 3D surface fitting and smoothing suitable for this task. An anisotropic linear-elastic mesh is fit to irregularly spaced and uncertain data points corresponding to visible segments of vessel borders, enabling the fully automated delineation of the entire inner and outer borders of diseased vessels in OCT images for the first time. In a clinical dataset, the proposed smooth surface fitting approach had great agreement when compared with human annotations: areas differed by just 11 ± 11% (0.93 ± 0.84 mm
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