Reconstruction of coronary trees from 3DRA using a 3D+t statistical cardiac prior

Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2014;17(Pt 2):619-26. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-10470-6_77.

Abstract

A 3D+t description of the coronary tree is important for diagnosis of coronary artery disease and therapy planning. In this paper, we propose a method for finding 3D+t points on coronary artery tree given tracked 2D+t point locations in X-ray rotational angiography images. In order to cope with the ill-posedness of the problem, we use a bilinear model of ventricle as a spatio-temporal constraint on the nonrigid structure of the coronary artery. Based on an energy minimization formulation, we estimate i) bilinear model parameters, ii) global rigid transformation between model and X-ray coordinate systems, and iii) correspondences between 2D coronary artery points on X-ray images and 3D points on bilinear model. We validated the algorithm using a software coronary artery phantom.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Coronary Angiography / methods*
  • Coronary Vessels / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Radiographic Image Enhancement / methods
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Rotation
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Subtraction Technique*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*