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Automatic or semi-automatic segmentation and tracking of artery trees from computed tomography angiography (CTA) is an important step to improve the diagnosis and treatment of artery diseases, but it still remains a significant challenging problem. In this paper, we present an artery extraction method to address the challenge. The proposed method consists of two steps: (1) a geometric moments based...
In this paper, we present an algorithm to identify umbilical and uterine arteries from a set of four different maternal and fetal arteries using their Doppler signatures. To distinguish these arteries, we use 132 Doppler signals collected from pregnant women with gestational ages between 24 to 40 weeks. Initially we filter them to remove noise; spectrograms are generated to extract good cycles, which...
Geometric characteristics and arrangement of the cerebral vessels are assumed to be related to the development of vascular diseases. Identifying anatomical segments and bifurcations of the cerebral vasculature allows the comparison of these characteristics across and within subjects. In this paper, we focus on the automatic identification of internal carotid artery (ICA) from 3D rotational angiographic...
In this present paper, we showed that wavelet analysis (WA) has the potential for extracting specific features from measured arterial diameter and pressure waveforms. The fifth detail of the Daubechies 4 (Db4) wavelet appears to be the most appropriate level for application, in order to analyze artery waveforms and was used to characterized arterial de-endothelization (DE). Raises in smooth muscle...
Renal Artery Stenosis (RAS) is the most common cause of secondary hypertension, and early diagnosis is important since correct and timely treatment may cure hypertension and prevent loss of renal function. This study investigates a new approach to diagnosing renal artery stenosis by computer analysis of the phonogram recorded with an electronic stethoscope. Phonograms recorded from five positions...
Assessing the individual geometry of the coronary arteries in a patient can help to explain diffuse artery disease. Some allometric functions, relating arterial length and volume, were verified in porcine arteries and human autopsies but not in vivo. In this work we use skeletonization methods on MSCT images to render the whole coronary tree in healthy and cardiovascular patients. Twenty patients...
In this paper, we propose an analysis of the coronary arterial tree obtained through magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Ten datasets of the state-of-the-art SSFP MRI sequence are first qualitatively evaluated and labelled. Second, a quantitative analysis of anatomical and image features is performed. Finally, a comparison with an existing semi-automatic centreline extraction method is reported...
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