State of the art in ICUS quantitation

IntraCoronary UltraSound (ICUS) data are the basis of two-dimensional (2D) quantitative information and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. A method for semi-automatic 3D image quantification for volumetric study of series of echo slices has been developed. The semi-automatic contour detection method was tested in-vitro in tubular phantoms of known dimensions. Intra- and interobserver variability was evaluated in-vivo for area and volume measurements of diseased human coronary arteries.

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