A novel approach to quantitative analysis of intravascular optical coherence tomography imaging

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.

@InProceedings { SBPWRHB08a,
  author       = "Sihan, K. and Botha, Charl P. and Post, Frits H. and Winter, Sebastiaan de and Regar, E and Hamers, R and
                  Bruining, N",
  title        = "A novel approach to quantitative analysis of intravascular optical coherence tomography imaging",
  booktitle    = "Proceedings of Computers in Cardiology",
  year         = "2008",
  note         = "2008.06.22",
  url          = "http://graphics.tudelft.nl/Publications-new/2008/SBPWRHB08a"
}