Detection of Soft Atheroscelarotic Plaques in Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 4
Abstract
Computed tomography angiography (CTA) has turned non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular anomalies into a reality as state-of-the-art imaging equipment is capable of recording sub-millimeter details. Based on high intensity, the calcified plaques are easily identified in cardiac CTA; however, low density based non-calcified plaque detection has been a challenging problem in recent years. We propose an efficient method in this work for automated detection of the non-calcified plaques using discrete radial profiles. The plaque detection is accomplished using support vector machine to differentiate abnormal coronary segments. We investigated a total of 32 CTA volumes and the detection mean accuracy of 84.6% was achieved, which is in-line with the reported literature.
Authors and Affiliations
Muhammad Moazzam Jawaid, Sajjad Ali Memon, Imran Ali Qureshi, Nasrullah Pirzada
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- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2018.090406
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