Computer Aided Detection and measurement of peripheral artery disease

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014:205:1153-7.

Abstract

Computer-Aided Tomography Angiography (CTA) images are the standard for assessing Peripheral artery disease (PAD). This paper presents a Computer Aided Detection (CAD) and Computer Aided Measurement (CAM) system for PAD. The CAD stage detects the arterial network using a 3D region growing method and a fast 3D morphology operation. The CAM stage aims to accurately measure the artery diameters from the detected vessel centerline, compensating for the partial volume effect using Expectation Maximization (EM) and a Markov Random field (MRF). The system has been evaluated on phantom data and also applied to fifteen (15) CTA datasets, where the detection accuracy of stenosis was 88% and the measurement accuracy was with an 8% error.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Angiography / methods*
  • Artificial Intelligence*
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional / methods*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease / diagnostic imaging*
  • Radiographic Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*