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AZETSU Tadahiro |
Belonging department |
国際文化学部 文化創造学科 |
Occupation name |
教授 |
Tissue characterisation of coronary plaques using sparse feature vectors
T. Azetsu, E. Uchino, S. Furukawa, N. Suetake, T. Hiro, M. Matsuzaki
In a diagnosis of the acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the tissue characterization of coronary plaque is very important. This paper proposes a novel method for the tissue characterization of coronary plaque by using a sparse coding. In the proposed method, an intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) backscattered radiofrequency (RF) signal is coded by the sparse coding, and the code patterns are used for the classification of a target tissue. Experiments are performed to classify the tissues of coronary plaque into fibrous or lipid tissue by using those RF signals, which are observed from a rabbit coronary artery. The effectiveness of the proposed method has been verified by the comparative studies with the conventional integrated backscatter (IB) analysis.
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