IVUS image processing and semantic analysis for Cardiovascular Diseases risk prediction. (14th April 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Doulaverakis, Charalampos; Papadogiorgaki, Maria; Mezaris, Vasileios; Billis, Antonis; Parissi, Eirini; Kompatsiaris, Ioannis; Gounaris, Anastasios; Chatzizisis, Yiannis; Giannoglou, George
• Is Part Of: International journal of biomedical engineering and technology. Volume 3:Number 3/4(2010)
• Page Start: 349
• Page End: 374
• Publication Date: 2010-04-14
• Subjects: IVUS image processing -- RBF -- radial basis function -- risk prediction -- semantic analysis -- OWL -- SWRL -- intravascular ultrasound -- cardiovascular diseases -- heart disease -- risk classification -- medical images -- automated segmentation -- arterial boundaries; Biomedical engineering -- Periodicals; 610.28
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-6418

Abstract

The work presented in this paper is part of a system able to perform risk classification of patients based on medical image analysis and on the semantically structured information of patient data from medical records and biochemical data. More specifically, the paper focuses on Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) image processing and the automated segmentation developed to extract the useful arterial boundaries. This is coupled with the design and implementation of a semantic reasoning-enabled knowledge base in OWL that integrates data from heterogeneous sources and incorporates functionality for DL classification. Performance evaluation of both IVUS image processing and knowledge base is discussed.