Automatic fibroatheroma identification in intravascular optical coherence tomography volumes
Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease that leads to heart attacks. The identification of vulnerable plaques, especially the thin-cap fibroatheroma (TCFA), is crucial to the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. Intravascular optical coherence tomography (IVOCT), an emerging imaging modality, has been proven to be useful for the identification of vulnerable plaques. In this work, we propose an approach to identify the volumes with fibroatheroma frames automatically. In the proposed method, we first detect the lumen using a graph-search based method from unfolded images. Then a region of interest starting from the lumen boundary is cropped ...
