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Cerebrovascular disease is one of the major diseases facing the world today. Automatic segmentation of intracranial artery (IA) in digital subtraction angiography (DSA) sequences is an important step in the diagnosis of vascular related…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Lemeng Wang , Wentao Liu , Weijin Xu , Haoyuan Li , Huihua Yang , Feng Gao

Coronary artery disease (CAD) has posed a leading threat to the lives of cardiovascular disease patients worldwide for a long time. Therefore, automated diagnosis of CAD has indispensable significance in clinical medicine. However, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Xinghua Ma , Gongning Luo , Wei Wang , Kuanquan Wang

Coronary artery diseases are among the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Timely and accurate diagnosis, facilitated by precise coronary artery segmentation, is pivotal in changing patient outcomes. In the realm of biomedical imaging,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Shisheng Zhang , Ramtin Gharleghi , Sonit Singh , Arcot Sowmya , Susann Beier

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide. Patients with suspected CAD undergo coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to evaluate the risk of cardiovascular events and determine the treatment. Clinical analysis of…

Segmentation of organs of interest in medical CT images is beneficial for diagnosis of diseases. Though recent methods based on Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (F-CNNs) have shown success in many segmentation tasks, fusing features from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yanli Yuan , Bingbing Wang , Chuan Zhang , Jingyi Xu , Ximeng Liu , Liehuang Zhu

Accurate cerebrovascular segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) and Computed Tomography Angiography (CTA) is of great significance in diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular pathology. Due to the complexity and topology…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Zhanqiang Guo , Yao Luan , Jianjiang Feng , Wangsheng Lu , Yin Yin , Guangming Yang , Jie Zhou

Due to the lack of automated methods, to diagnose cerebrovascular disease, time-of-flight magnetic resonance angiography (TOF-MRA) is assessed visually, making it time-consuming. The commonly used encoder-decoder architectures for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Syed Farhan Abbas , Nguyen Thanh Duc , Yoonguu Song , Kyungwon Kim , Ekta Srivastava , Boreom Lee

Accurate coronary artery segmentation is critical for computeraided diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD), yet it remains challenging due to the small size, complex morphology, and low contrast with surrounding tissues. To address…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Caixia Dong , Duwei Dai , Xinyi Han , Fan Liu , Xu Yang , Zongfang Li , Songhua Xu

Coronary angiography remains the gold standard for diagnosing Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). However, its resource-intensive and invasive nature can expose patients to procedural risks and diagnostic delays, leading to postponed treatment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Diane Kim , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Sherif Abdalla , Teresa S. M. Tsang , Purang Abolmaesumi , and Christina Luong

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has established its role as a non-invasive modality for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). The CAD-Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) has been developed to standardize communication and aid in…

Atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the large arteries, presents a global health risk. Accurate analysis of diagnostic images, like computed tomographic angiograms (CTAs), is essential for staging and monitoring the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Alireza Bagheri Rajeoni , Breanna Pederson , Daniel G. Clair , Susan M. Lessner , Homayoun Valafar

X-ray coronary angiography (XCA) is a principal approach employed for identifying coronary disorders. Deep learning-based networks have recently shown tremendous promise in the diagnosis of coronary disorder from XCA scans. A deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Supriti Mulay , Keerthi Ram , Balamurali Murugesan , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Functionally significant coronary artery disease (CAD) is caused by plaque buildup in the coronary arteries, potentially leading to narrowing of the arterial lumen, i.e. coronary stenosis, that significantly obstructs blood flow to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Nils Hampe , Sanne G. M. van Velzen , Jean-Paul Aben , Carlos Collet , Ivana Išgum

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the primary causes leading deaths worldwide. The presence of atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries is the underlying pathophysiological basis of CAD, and accurate extraction of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chen Zhao , Zhihui Xu , Guang-Uei Hung , Weihua Zhou

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel non-invasive imaging modality for the visualisation of microvasculature in vivo that has encountered broad adoption in retinal research. OCTA potential in the assessment of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Ylenia Giarratano , Eleonora Bianchi , Calum Gray , Andrew Morris , Tom MacGillivray , Baljean Dhillon , Miguel O. Bernabeu

The standard non-invasive imaging technique used to assess the severity and extent of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA). However, manual grading of each patient's CCTA according to the…

Analyzing the morphological attributes of blood vessels plays a critical role in the computer-aided diagnosis of many cardiovascular and ophthalmologic diseases. Although being extensively studied, segmentation of blood vessels,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Yicheng Wu , Chengwei Pan , Shuqi Wang , Ming Zhang , Yong Xia , Yizhou Yu

One of the main sources of error in multi-atlas segmentation propagation approaches comes from the use of atlas databases that are morphologically dissimilar to the target image. In this work, we exploit the segmentation errors associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Maria A. Zuluaga , Alex F. Mendelson , M. Jorge Cardoso , Andrew M. Taylor , Sébastien Ourselin

This study is to demonstrate deep learning for automated artery-vein (AV) classification in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). The AV-Net, a fully convolutional network (FCN) based on modified U-shaped CNN architecture,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Minhaj Alam , David Le , Taeyoon Son , Jennifer I. Lim , Xincheng Yao