Title
A novel 3D segmentation method of the lumen from intravascular ultrasound images
Abstract
In this paper a novel method that automatically detects the lumenintima border on an intravascular ultrasound sequence (IVUS) is presented. First, a 3D co-occurrence matrix was used to efficiently extract the texture information of the IVUS images through the temporal sequence. By extracting several co-occurrence matrices a complete characterization feature space was determined. Secondly, using a k-means algorithm, all the pixels in the IVUS images were classified by determining if they belong to either the lumen or the other vessel tissues. This enables automatic clustering and therefore no learning step was required. The classification of the pixels within the feature space was obtained using 3 clusters: two clusters for the vessel tissues, one cluster for the lumen, while the remaining pixels are labeled as unclassified. Experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to noisy images and yields segmented lumen-intima contours validated by an expert in more than 80% of a total of 300 IVUS images.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-74260-9_84
ICIAR
Keywords
Field
DocType
segmentation method,intravascular ultrasound image,co-occurrence matrix,novel method,intravascular ultrasound sequence,vessel tissue,complete characterization feature space,feature space,automatic clustering,temporal sequence,ivus image,k means algorithm,co occurrence matrix,k means
Computer vision,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Intravascular ultrasound,Computer science,Segmentation,Lumen (unit),Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Cluster analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4633
0302-9743
3-540-74258-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ionut Alexandrescu100.34
Farida Cheriet248261.48
Sébastien Delorme35411.03