Area-preserving flattening maps of 3D ultrasound carotid arteries images.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2008
Journal
Medical Image Analysis
Volume
12
Issue
6
First Page
676
Last Page
688
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2008.04.002
Abstract
Quantitative measurements of the progression (or regression) of carotid plaque burden are important in monitoring patients and evaluating new treatment options. 3D ultrasound (US) has been used to monitor the progression of carotid artery plaques in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, and different methods of measuring various ultrasound phenotypes of atherosclerosis have been developed. We have developed a quantitative metric used to analyze changes in carotid plaque morphology from 3D US. This method matched the vertices on the carotid arterial wall surface with those on the luminal surface. Vessel-wall-plus-plaque thickness (VWT) was obtained by computing the distance between each corresponding pair, which was then superimposed on the arterial wall to produce the VWT map. Since the progression of plaque thickness is important in monitoring patients who are at risk for stroke, we also computed the change of VWT by comparing the VWT maps obtained for a patient at two different time points. In this paper, we propose a technique to flatten the 3D VWT and VWT-Change maps in an area-preserving manner, in order to facilitate the visualization and interpretation of these maps.
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Notes
This is an author accepted manuscript of an article initially published by Elsevier in Medical Imaging Analysis. The final published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2008.04.002