Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Vessels from Intravascular Ultrasound Sequence and X-Ray Angiograms

Author

Zheng, Sun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., North China Electr. Power Univ., Baoding, China

fYear

2009

fDate

17-19 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A method to reconstruct vessels from intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) image sequence and X-ray angiograms is proposed in this paper. The pullback path of IVUS catheter is tracked and reconstructed from angiographic image pair acquired during IVUS intervention. Cross-sectional borders of the vessel wall are detected from IVUS frames in a semiautomatic manner. After axial locations of IVUS frames are determined along the 3D pullback path of IVUS catheter, their spatial orientations are determined based on a Frenet-Serret frame model and global optimization. Finally, the vessel is accurately reconstructed with solid modeling technique. Experimental results with clinical data demonstrate the validity.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; blood vessels; diagnostic radiography; image reconstruction; medical image processing; 3D vessel reconstruction; Frenet-Serret frame model; IVUS catheter; X-ray angiogram; global optimization; intravascular ultrasound sequence; Angiography; Catheters; Coronary arteriosclerosis; Image reconstruction; Image sequences; Optical imaging; Solid modeling; Ultrasonic imaging; Visualization; X-ray imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics, 2009. BMEI '09. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tianjin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4132-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4134-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BMEI.2009.5305690

Filename

5305690