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Reproducibility of IVUS Measurements in Heart Transplant Recipients: Increased Quality of Data by Using Dedicated Software for Image Analysis
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2008.
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Abstract
- Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) is the major cause limiting long term graft survival after heart transplantation (HT), and is characterized by changes in coronary artery geometry, such as intimal thickening and vessel remodeling. Given the limited strategies available to reduce its impact on outcome, early diagnosis of CAV - for which intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is the gold standard - is crucial to appropriately modulate therapy and to reduce contributing risk factors. However, a highly reproducible image-analysis method is required to capture the complex mechanisms beyond CAV - related changes in coronary geometry.
- Subjects :
- Heart transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty
Reproducibility
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Gold standard (test)
Limiting
Cardiac allograft vasculopathy
medicine.anatomical_structure
Internal medicine
Intravascular ultrasound
medicine
Cardiology
cardiovascular system
Radiology
Thickening
business
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Artery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....34be37c2bfe567af905e1445d2ed21d3