Automatic Identification of the Lumen Border in Intravascular Ultrasound Images


The KIPS Transactions:PartB , Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 201-208, Jun. 2012
10.3745/KIPSTB.2012.19.3.201,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Accurately segmenting lumen border in intravascular ultrasound images (IVUS) is very important to study vascular wall architecture for diagnosis of the cardiovascular diseases. After each of IVUS image is transformed to a polar coordinated image, initial points are detected using wavelet transform. Then, lumen border is initialized as the set of important points using non parametric probability density function and smoothing function by removing outlier initial points occurred by noises and artifacts. Finally, polynomial curve fitting is applied to obtain real lumen border using filtered important points. The evaluation of proposed method was performed with related method and the proposed method produced accurate lumen contour detection when compared to another method in most types of IVUS images.


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[IEEE Style]
J. O. Park, B. C. Ko, H. J. Park, J. Y. Nam, "Automatic Identification of the Lumen Border in Intravascular Ultrasound Images," The KIPS Transactions:PartB , vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 201-208, 2012. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2012.19.3.201.

[ACM Style]
Jun Oh Park, Byoung Chul Ko, Hee Jun Park, and Jae Yeal Nam. 2012. Automatic Identification of the Lumen Border in Intravascular Ultrasound Images. The KIPS Transactions:PartB , 19, 3, (2012), 201-208. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTB.2012.19.3.201.