Catheter Cardiovasc Interv

A novel approach for quantitative analysis of intracoronary optical coherence tomography: high inter-observer agreement with computer-assisted contour detection

K. Sihan, Charl P. Botha, Frits H. Post, Sebastiaan de Winter, E Regar, R Hamers, and N Bruining

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Quantitative analysis on intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) image data (e.g. QOCT) is currently performed by a time-consuming manual contour tracing process in many individual OCT images acquired during a pullback procedure (frame-based method). In order to get a more efficient quantitative analysis process and to investigate the possibilities to use this contour information for development of an imagebased retrospective OCT-gating method, as a first step a novel approach has been developed that exploits a full-automated contour tracing method for coronary lumens in OCT images without the need for intensive observer related actions. This study presents this new method, which was tested on in-vivo acquired human coronary OCT image data of 10 randomly selected patients.

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@article{bib:sihan:2008,
    author       = { Sihan, K. and Botha, Charl P. and Post, Frits H. and de Winter, Sebastiaan and Regar, E and Hamers, R and Bruining, N },    
    title        = { A novel approach for quantitative analysis of intracoronary optical coherence tomography: high inter-observer agreement with computer-assisted contour detection },
    journal      = { Catheter Cardiovasc Interv },
    volume       = { 72 },
    year         = { 2008 },
    pages        = { 228--35 },
    doi          = { 10.1002/ccd.21482 },
    pubmedid     = { 18324698 },
    url          = { https://publications.graphics.tudelft.nl/papers/595 },
}