Mortality Any death due to approximate cardiac cause (e.g., MI, cardiac tamponade, worsening heart failure) Unwitnessed death and death of unknown cause All procedure-related deaths, including those related to complication…
James K. Min, Daniel S. Berman and Jonathon Leipsic (eds.)Multimodality Imaging for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement201410.1007/978-1-4471-2798-7_1 © Springer-Verlag London 2014 1. Why We Need This Book James K. Min1 , Jonathon Leipsic3 and Daniel S. Berman2 (1) Weill Cornell Medical College, NewYork-Presbyterian…
(or I), a (M + 1) × (N + 1) neighborhood with and calling sweeping window is being processed. Then, textural features are extracted from this sweeping window and assigned to the central pixel. Finally, according…
Fig. 13.1 IVUS image in polar coordinates (a) and Cartesian coordinates (b) with the presence of lipidic (LIP) and calcified (CAL) plaques that were histologically identified The acoustic response of different…
Fig. 18.1 Automated cropping of the ultrasound DICOM image. The original image frame (left) is cropped (right). The white circle indicates the scanning depth, which could be used for manual…
Fig. 8.1 General procedure of 3D plaque geometry reconstruction Fig. 8.2 Segmentation results for the symptomatic patients superimposed on T2-weighted MRI images (a) and reconstructed 3D plaque geometry (b) 2.3…
Fig. 22.1 Intima–media complex in a B-mode image of the common carotid artery (CCA). The lumen (zone Z4) is the region where the blood flows. The CCA wall is formed…
Fig. 21.1 (a) Original B-mode image. (b) Downsampled and despeckled image. (c) Convolution of image (b) with a first-order Gaussian kernel. (d) Automated tracing of the far adventitia layer (ADF)…
Study Segmentation method 2D/3D AIC N Ultrasound imaging Zahalka et al. [5] Deformable models 3D No 69 Hamou et al. [6] Canny edge detection 2D No – Abdel-Dayen et al….
Fig. 29.1 Block diagram of the proposed technique; the blocks outside the dotted shaded rectangular box represent the flow in the off-line system, and the blocks within the dotted box…
