Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Image Analysis at City, University of London

Framework for detection and localization of coronary non-calcified plaques in cardiac CTA using mean radial profiles

Muhammad Moazzam Jawaid, Atif Riaz, Ronak Rajani, Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro, Greg Slabaugh (see publication in Journal )

Abstract


BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The high mortality rate associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) has driven intensive research in cardiac imaging and image analysis. The advent of computed tomography angiography (CTA) has turned non-invasive diagnosis of cardiovascular anomalies into reality as calcified coronary plaques can be easily identified due to their high intensity values. However, the detection of non-calcified plaques in CTA is still a challenging problem because of lower intensity values, which are often similar to the nearby blood and muscle tissues. In this work, we propose the use of mean radial profiles for the detection of non-calcified plaques in CTA imager”