Automatic Characterisation of Human Atherosclerotic Plaque Composition from Intravascular Optical Coherence Tomography Using Artificial Intelligence

Haibo Jia is a research fellow in the Cardiology Division of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine. He came to Mass General Hospital in March 2012 from the Cardiology Department of the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in Harbin, China. Dr. Jia received his MD in 2008 and his PhD in 2011, both from Harbin Medical University. His main research interests are investigating the relationship between circulating biomarkers and plaque vulnerability as determined by OCT, and elucidating the role of plaque erosion in the pathogenesis of acute coronary syndrome using intracoronary OCT. Dr. Jia has been working with the MGH OCT Registry in Harbin since September 2010.